Electoral Laws Amendment Bill - Amendments from NCOP Select Committee (ANC)

 

Long Title

Delete ["handicapped person] and replace with 'persons with disabilities"

Prisoners

24B

(1) In an election for the National Assembly or a provincial legislature, a person who on election day is in prison and not serving a sentence of imprisonment without the option of a fine and whose name appears on the voters' roll for another voting district, is deemed for that election day to have been registered by his or her name having been entered on the voters' roll for the voting district in which he or she is in prison.

(2) A person who is in prison on that election day and is serving a sentence of imprisonment without the option of a fine may not vote.

(3) Prisoners who are awaiting trial may vote.

 

Schedule 1A

Definitions

24 "region" means province.

Electoral Laws Amendment Bill

Prisoners

24B (1) In an election for the National Assembly or a provincial legislature, a person who is in prison on an election day and is not serving a sentence of imprisonment without the option of a fine and whose name appears on the voters' roll for another voting district, is deemed for that election day to have been registered by his or her name having been entered on the voters' roll for the voting district in which he or she is in prison.

(2) A person who is in prison on an election day may not vote if he or she is serving a sentence of imprisonment without the option of a fine.

(3) A person who is in prison on election day may only vote if he or she is

  1. not serving a sentence of imprisonment without the option of a fine, or
  2. awaiting trial