The Ministry of Law and Justice on 26th October 2022, has notified the Registration of Electors (Second Amendment) Rules, 2022 to further amend the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.
The amendment is brought under form 5 which deals with Notice of publication of electoral roll in draft, in which the following paragraph 5 has been inserted:
An eligible Citizen, who is going to attain the age of eighteen years on any of the subsequent qualifying dates in the year ……., that is to say, the 1st April, ……., the 1st July, ……., or the 1st October, ……, may also file his or her claim for inclusion of his or her name in the roll, in Form-6, in advance, starting from the date of notice, and the same shall be considered and decided in the respective quarter of the year with reference to the respective qualifying date.
