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LEGISLATION

LAWS AND REGULATIONS
LAWS/ REGULATIONS SOME ELECTORAL TOPICS DEALT WITH
1.    Constitution of Mauritius (word version 364 KB)
   Appointment and functions of the Electoral Supervisory Commission, Electoral Boundaries Commission and Electoral Commissioner
   Constituencies
   Qualifications and disqualifications of electors
   Right to vote at elections
   Registration of parties
   Elected members to be returned by constituencies
   Allocation of additional seats
2.   Representation of the People Act (Word version 260 KB)
1.    Registration of electors

 

 Registration officers
   Registration Areas
 
 Registers for constituencies/local government areas
 
 Preparation of electors' list (provisional registers)
 
 Claims to be registered as elector or regarding corrections in electors lists
 
 Publication of list of claimants
 
 Objections to entries in electors' lists/list of claimants
 
 Formation of lists into register
 
 Publication of registers
 
 Appeals
 
 Omissions in register
 
 Variation of dates
 
2.    Elections
  Issue of writs
  Election petition
  Election Expenses
  Election Returns
3.    Election Offences
  Bribery and treating
  Undue influence
  Personation
  Duty of secrecy
  Preservation of order
  Penalties
3.   Rodrigues Regional Assembly Act (Act no 39 of 2001) (word version 272 KB)

 

 Qualifications and disqualifications of Electors
   Time of ordinary elections
   Voting at ordinary elections
   Party lists for the Island region
   Calculation of Island region figures
   Return of Island region members
   Vacant local region seats
   Vacant Island region seats
 
4.   Local Government Act (Act no 48 of 1989) (word version 402 KB)
  Constitution of Municipal, District and Village Councils
  Division of Towns into electoral wards
  Election of Municipal and Village Councillors
  Qualifications of local authority councillors
  Qualifications and disqualifications of electors for Municipal and Village Council Elections
 5.   National Assmbly Elections Regulations, 1968, (word version 188 KB)

 

 Appointment of returning officers and deputy returning officers
   Registration of parties
   Nomination and withdrawal of candidates
   Polling and Counting agents
   Preparation for the Poll
   Allocation of symbols
   Mode of voting and counting
   Blind and incapacitated electors
   Voting by Proxy
   Tendered/spoilt/rejected ballot papers
   Declaration of the Poll
   Allocation of additional seats
 
6.   Municipal Council Elections Regulations, 1958 (word version 149 KB)

 

 Appointment of returning officers and deputy returning officers
   Nomination and withdrawal of candidates
   Polling and Counting agents
   Preparation for the Poll
   Allocation of symbols
   Mode of voting and counting
   Blind and incapacitated electors
   Voting by Proxy
   Tendered/spoilt/rejected ballot papers
   Declaration of the Poll
 
7.  Village Council Elections Regulations, 1961 (word version 113 KB)

 

 Appointment of returning officers and deputy returning officers
   Nomination and withdrawal of candidates
   Polling and Counting agents
   Preparation for the Poll
   Allocation of symbols
   Mode of voting and counting
   Blind and incapacitated electors
   Voting with the assistance of "a companion"
   Tendered/spoilt/rejected ballot papers
   Declaration of the Poll
 
8.   Rodrigues Regional Assembly Elections Regulations, 2002 (word version 199 KB)

 

 Appointment of returning officers and deputy returning officers
   Issue of writs of elections
   Registration of parties
   Submission of lists of candidates for Island Region Election
   Nomination and withdrawal of candidates
   Polling and Counting agents
   Preparation for the Poll
   Allocation of symbols
   Mode of voting and counting
   Blind and incapacitated electors
   Voting with the assistance of "a companion"
   Voting by Proxy
   Tendered/spoilt/rejected ballot papers
   Declaration of the Poll for local region
   Declaration of Party Results
   Allocation of Island Region seats
 
Last Updated: 17 March 2010