THE CYPRUS GAZETTE, 1925.
THE CYPRUS GAZETTE, 1925.
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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>CYPRUS</strong> <strong>GAZETTE</strong> (EXTRAORDINARY), 1st SEPTEMBER, 1926. 419<br />
or quarter will be taken and of the names, places<br />
of abode, and caUinga or professions of the candidates,<br />
three clear days at least before the first<br />
of the days fixed for taking the poll.<br />
19. At each polhng place there shall be one<br />
or more polhng stations which shall be appointed<br />
for the purpose by the Presiding Officer, who shall<br />
cause the names, places of abode, and calhngs<br />
or professions of the candidates nominated for<br />
election to be placarded in a conspicuous place<br />
thereat three clear days at least before the commencement<br />
of the poll.<br />
20. Upon receipt by the Mukhtar of the notice<br />
mentioned in clause 18, he shall communicate<br />
the same to the Azas of his village or quarter,<br />
and the Mukhtar and Azas shall, prior to the<br />
day of polhng, choose one of their number to<br />
attend at the polhng station of the sub-district<br />
in which their village or quarter is situate during<br />
the time appointed for taking the votes of such<br />
village or quarter, and the person so chosen shall<br />
during that time acconapany any inhabitant of<br />
his village or quarter requiring to record his vote<br />
into the polling station for the purpose of identifying<br />
him.<br />
And in case any Mukhtar shall fail to communicate<br />
such notice to the Azas of his village or<br />
quarter, or the Mukhtar and Azas shall make<br />
default so to choose one of their number, every<br />
person making such default as aforesaid shall be<br />
hable to a penalty not exceeding £1.<br />
The person chosen under the provisions of this<br />
regulation to attend the poll on behalf of any<br />
village or quarter is hereinafter referred to as<br />
the village representative.<br />
21. There shall be present in the polling station<br />
during the taking of the poll the Presiding Officer<br />
and one clerk and one person to be appointed<br />
by the Returning Officer for the control and<br />
custody of each ballot box and such interpreter<br />
or interpreters as the case may require and the<br />
Govemor may direct, and the village representative<br />
of the village or quarter to which the person<br />
recording his vote or volfes' belongs, and each<br />
candidate may if he thinks fit appoint an agent,<br />
who may be present in the polling station during<br />
the taking of the poll.<br />
22. In case any village representative chosen<br />
to attend the poll as hereinbefore provided shall<br />
without due cause absent himself therefrom at<br />
any time during the polhng of his village or<br />
quarter he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding<br />
£1. Provided that the absence of any village<br />
representative shall not prevent the Presiding<br />
Officer from taking the votes of the village or<br />
quarter concemed.<br />
23. The Returning Officer shall provide each<br />
polhng station with at least one copy of the<br />
register of voters or such part thereof as contains<br />
the names of the voters, allotted to vote at such<br />
station, with the number of ballot boxes equal<br />
to the number of candidates for election, and<br />
with a sufficient number of voting tickets. Each<br />
box shall bear the full name of one of the candidates<br />
plainly and legibly printed or written thereon<br />
m Enghsh and Turkish or Enghsh and Greek<br />
according as to whether the candidate is'a Mohammedan<br />
or non-Mohammedan.<br />
24. Each ballot box shall be of a uniform<br />
kind as approved by the Govemor and shall be<br />
divided into two inner compartments distinguished<br />
outwardly by two different colours, the colour<br />
of the right hand compartment which shall be<br />
assigned to the " Ayes" being white and the<br />
colour of the left hand compartment which<br />
shall be assigned to the " Noes " bemg black.<br />
The words " Ayes " and " Noes " shall appear<br />
in capital letters on the face of the ballot boxes<br />
in Turkish or Greek characters as the case may be.<br />
On the front part of the ballot box there shall<br />
be a round hole and attached thereto a tube<br />
through which the voter shall insert his hand and<br />
place the voting ticket and in each compartment<br />
there shall be a receptacle for receiving the voting<br />
tickets that for the " Ayes " being of a white<br />
colour and that for the "Noes " being of a black<br />
colour.<br />
25. Immediately before the commencement of<br />
the polhng the Presiding Officer at any polhng<br />
station shall show each ballot box empty to such<br />
persons as may be present in such station so<br />
that they may see that it is empty, and shall<br />
then lock it up and place his seal upon it in such<br />
manner as to prevent it being opened without<br />
breaking such seal, and shall place it in his view<br />
for the receipt of voting tickets, and keep it so<br />
locked and sealed.<br />
26.—{a) Not more than five voters shall be<br />
allowed to be in the polling station at the same<br />
time. On admission each voter shall in the presence<br />
of the persons named in clause 21 hereof<br />
state his name and place of residence, and shaU be<br />
identified by the village representative of his<br />
village or quarter, apd the clerk shall thereupon<br />
place a mark against the name of such voter in a<br />
copy of the Register of Voters which he shall have<br />
for that purpose. The Presiding Officer shall then<br />
hand to each of the persons in custody of the<br />
ballot boxes a number of voting tickets equal to<br />
the number of voters present in the polling station.<br />
Each such person holding the ballot tickets shall<br />
stand near the ballot box to wliich he is attached<br />
and hand over to every voter as he passes by the<br />
ballot box one voting ticket stating at the same<br />
time in a clear manner, in Turkish or Greek as<br />
the case mav be, the full name of the candidate<br />
to whom the ballot box belongs. The voter on<br />
receiving the voting ticket and holding the same<br />
shall raise his hand in order to show that he holds<br />
but one voting ticket and immediately afterwards<br />
shall put his hand into the ballot box and vote<br />
and the same process shall be repeated until the<br />
voter passes by all the ballot boxes.<br />
(6) Every Mohammedan voter must cast a<br />
vote in the ballot box of every Mohammedan<br />
candidate. Every non-Mohammedan voter must<br />
cast a vote in the ballot box of every non-Mohammedan<br />
cndidate. If any Mohammedan or non-<br />
Mohammedan voter refuses to cast a vote in the<br />
ballot box of every Mohammedan or non-Mohammedan<br />
candidate as the case may be the Presiding<br />
Officer shalj forthwith inform such voter refusing<br />
so to vote that he is required to vote as a oresaid<br />
in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation<br />
and if, after having been so informed, such<br />
voteisstih refuses so to vote the Presiding Officer<br />
shall have power to fine forthwith such voter<br />
refusing so to vote a sum by way of penalty not<br />
exceeding five pounds. If such voter refusing so<br />
to vote does not pay such fine forthwith the<br />
Presiding Officer may thereupon order him to<br />
be arrested and after such arrest such voter shaU be<br />
brought with all convenient speed before any Court<br />
of Magisterial jurisdiction and the said Court shall<br />
have power to enforce the payment of such fine so<br />
inflicted as aforesaid by the Presiding Officer in the<br />
same manner as if such fine had been inflicted by<br />
any decision of such Court and in default of<br />
payment thereof the said Court may order such<br />
voter to be imprisoned with or without hard<br />
labour for a period not exceeding three months.<br />
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