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Paragraph 14
 
14.  A further related feature is the maintenance of the registers, particularly the rules referred to incorporation or elimination of electors’ entries. Based on the results of the annual canvass, the registration officers shall make the alterations in their registers in accordance with Section 10A. This Section regulates several circumstances such as entitlement to be registered and to be treated as being registered; entitlement to remain registered and termination of the entitlement to remain registered. If, as a result of a canvass, a form completed in respect of an address “specifies any person as a person who is entitled to be registered in a register” and the person has not, for the time being, been registered in respect of that address, “he shall be treated as having made, on the 15th of October in the year in question, an application for registration in the register in respect at that address”. The person already entered in a register in respect of any address, is entitled to remain registered, unless it is determined that the elector was not resident at that address as legally required, or the form was not returned in respect of that address, or for any other reason the information received is insufficient to establish whether the elector was resident at that address. In any of these cases, the registration office determines that the elector has ceased to be resident at that address or has failed to satisfy the conditions for registration, and it shall remove the person’s entry from the register.[4]