(1) As soon as practicable after an authorised roll for a district has been
prepared by the Electoral Commissioner after the issue of the writ for an
election, the Commissioner is to make a copy of the roll available for public
inspection.
(a) to be made
available, during ordinary office hours, for public inspection without fee at
the office of the Electoral Commission and such other place or places as the
Electoral Commissioner determines, and
(b) to remain available for public
inspection until 40 days after the return of the writ.
(3) The
Electoral Commissioner may make a copy of an authorised roll available for
public inspection without fee in any other way that the Commissioner considers
appropriate.
(4) A person inspecting a copy of an authorised roll under this
section is not entitled to use a device (such as a camera, mobile phone, video
recorder or other electronic device) to copy, record or transmit the contents
of the roll or any part of the roll, but this subsection does not prevent a
person taking hand-written notes of any of those contents.
(5) A copy of an
authorised roll made available under this section must not contain any
particulars relating to a person's date of birth.
Note : The authorised roll
used at a voting centre will specify a person's date of birth. It is only the
special copy prepared for the purposes of this section that will have the date
of birth removed.
