2394
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

(i.) If the Registrar appears, and the person objected to appears or forwards a statement as aforesaid, the Judge of the High Court shall hear and determine the objection, and shall direct the Registrar to retain the name on the roll, or to remove it therefrom, or to make such amendment of the roll as may be necessary to give effect to such determination.

(j.) No grounds of objection shall be entertained except those specifically stated in the notice of objection.

19. Notwithstanding anything in this Order, the Registrar, on being satisfied that the name of any person has been omitted or removed from the roll by mistake or clerical error, or through false information, may restore the name of such person to the roll at any time not later than fourteen clear days before the day appointed for the election.

20. (1.) Except as provided in the last preceding clause, it shall not be lawful for the Registrar to enter on or remove from the roll the name of any person after the day of publication in the Western Samoa Gazette of the appointment by the Administrator of the day fixed for the election.

(2.) If the Registrar offends against the provisions of this clause he is liable to a fine of twenty pounds for every name so improperly entered on or removed from the roll.

THE ELECTORAL ROLL.

21. (1.) In every year in which an election is to be held the roll shall be closed on a date to be fixed by the Administrator, and after that date no names shall be added to the roll until after that election.

(2.) As soon as practicable after the closing of the roll, the Registrar shall cause the roll to be printed containing the names, numbered consecutively in alphabetical order, of all persons whose names are lawfully on the roll.

(3.) The roll shall be in the form numbered (5) in the First Schedule hereto, and shall be issued under the hand of the Registrar.

22. Such printed roll so formed, signed, added to, or altered from time to time as herein provided shall for the time being be the electoral roll for Samoa.

23. The several persons whose names are on the said roll, and no other person, shall be entitled to vote at any election of elected members.

24. A printed copy of the roll shall be kept for inspection by the public without payment during office hours at the office of the Registrar at Apia, at the post-office in Apia, and at the offices of the Resident Commissioners in Savai'i and at Aleipata, and at such other convenient places in Samoa as the Registrar directs.

25. Printed copies of the roll, certified as correct by the Registrar, shall be supplied by him to the Returning Officer as the same are required from time to time for the purpose of conducting any election.

OFFENCES WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS, ETC.

26. Every person who knowingly makes a false statement in any claim, application, or declaration mentioned or referred to in this Order is liable to a fine of twenty pounds or to three months’ imprisonment.

27. Every person is liable for each offence to a fine of fifty pounds who—

(a.) Wilfully misleads the Registrar in the compilation of the electoral roll, or wilfully enters or causes to be entered therein any false or fictitious name or qualification or the name of any person whom he knows to be dead; or

(b.) Signs the name of any other person, whether requested to do so or not, or any false or fictitious name, to any form of