New Forest Act 1949

Section 3.

FIRST SCHEDULEPreparation and Revision of Electoral Register

1The verderers shall prepare a draft of the electoral register, and shall cause notice of their intention to prepare the register and of the places where copies of the draft may be inspected, and extracts therefrom may be taken, at all reasonable times, and of the time within which, and the manner in which, objections to any entry or omission in the draft register may be made to the revising authority, to be published in such manner as the verderers may with the approval of the Minister determine to be best suited for informing persons concerned.

2If any objection to the draft register is duly made, the revising authority, after affording to the objector and to any other person appearing to the authority to be concerned an opportunity of being heard by a person appointed by the revising authority for the purpose, shall determine the objection.

3The decision of the revising authority on any objection shall be final.

4As soon as may be after the determination of any objections duly made to the draft register, or if no objections thereto are duly made, then as soon as may be after the time for making objections has expired, the verderers shall prepare and publish the register in the form of the draft, subject to the modifications required by the determination of any objections.

5The verderers shall revise the electoral register as at the first day of October in any year in which an election for an elective verderer is to be held, and the foregoing provisions of this Schedule shall with the necessary modifications apply to the revision of the register as they apply to the preparation thereof.

6For the purposes of this Schedule the revising authority shall be the sheriff of the county of Southampton.

7The expenses of the revising authority shall be defrayed out of the funds in the hands of the verderers.

8The Forestry Commissioners shall make good to the verderers any reasonable expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the verderers in connection with the preparation, maintenance or evision of the electoral register.