The government has released the proposed amendments to the National Registration Act of 2000, which includes a measure to remove the names of deceased registrants, ahead of a planned public stakeholder consultation slated for next week Tuesday.
The proposed amendments were released by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance and would see the introduction of several new sections into the existing legislation. Chief among them is the criteria for the removal of names from the National Register of Registrants (NRR).
Removal of names from the NRR has been a contentious issue prior to the 2020 general election. Back in 2019, acting Chief Justice Roxane George declared that existing registrants could not be excised from a new voters’ list unless they were deceased or otherwise disqualified under Article 159 (2), (3) or (4) of the Constitution.