Registering and revising officers

(1) For the purpose of the registration of electors and the issue of identification cards to them, the Public Services REVISED EDITION 2018 19 Commission shall by notice in the Gazette appoint a registering officer in respect of each electoral division and may from time to time appoint one or more persons to be assistant registering officers. A person so appointed to be an assistant registering officer shall have all the powers and may perform all the duties of the registering officer he is appointed to assist and any reference in this Act to a registering officer shall unless the context otherwise requires be deemed to include a reference to every person so appointed as an assistant registering officer. (2) The Chief Magistrate of the Belize District or a magistrate nominated by him shall be the revising officer for the divisions in the Belize District and the resident magistrate of each district shall be the revising officer for those divisions falling within that district.