(1) All applications which may be made to the Commission under this Act regarding the registration, cancellation, correction or transfer of a voter may either be delivered to the Electoral Office or to the Local Council office wherein the voter resides or to any police officer in any police station in Malta or Gozo, or forwarded to the Commission free of any charge for posting.
(2) Every Local Council secretary and every police officer to whom an application as is referred to in subsection (1) hereof is delivered shall give a receipt to the person delivering the application, write on the application the date on which the application is received and shall forward the application forthwith to the Commission.
(3) The Commission shall give or forward to each applicant a receipt in respect of each such application received by it.
(4) Any notice or other written communication which may be made by the Commission under this Act may be forwarded through the post and shall be deemed to have been received by the person to whom it was addressed on the day on which a letter regularly posted would in the normal course of postage have been received. Provided that any notice or written communication sent by the Commission to any person regarding his rights as a voter shall be sent by registered post.
(5) It shall be the duty of the Electoral Commission to ensure that an adequate supply of forms is available at all times at Local Council offices and at police stations.
