Effect of certificate and report

(1) Upon the transmission to the Chief Elections Officer of the certificate of the determination of an Election Judge or of the decision of the Court of Appeal as required by regulation 104– (a) the determination or the decision, as the case may be, shall take effect; and 96 (b) the return or the election shall be confirmed or altered; and (c) where the election has been declared void, the Chief Elections Officer shall, within one month of the receipt of the certificate by notice in the Gazette, order the holding of an election in the town concerned, as the case may require, in accordance with such certificate. (2) (a) The Chief Elections Officer shall, upon receipt of the report of the Election Judge or of the Court of Appeal transmitted to him under regulation 104, cause a copy of the report to be published in the Gazette. (b) (i) Where the report referred to in paragraph (a) is to the effect that a corrupt or illegal practice has been committed by any person, that person shall be subject to the same incapacities as if at the date of the said report he had been convicted of that (ii) Where the report referred to in paragraph (a) is to the effect that such corrupt or illegal practice was committed with the knowledge and consent of a person who was a candidate at an election or by his agent, that person shall be subject to the same incapacities as aforesaid. (3) It shall be the duty of every registering officer forthwith to peruse every such report which is published in the Gazette as provided in subregulation (2) and forthwith to delete from the register of electors assigned to him the name of every person appearing from the report to be incapable of voting at an election.