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New Forest Act 1949

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3Qualification of electors

(1)The qualification for an elector at an election of elective verderers shall be that the elector is over the age of twenty-one and occupies not less than one acre of land, being land to which are attached rights of common over the Forest.

(2)The verderers shall prepare and maintain a register (hereinafter referred to as "the electoral register") of the persons qualified as aforesaid, and at any election of elective verderers a person shall be entitled to vote if, and only if, he is for the time being registered in the electoral register.

(3)A person entitled to vote at an election shall be entitled to give one vote for each vacancy for the filling of which the election is held, so however that he shall not give more than one vote for one candidate.

(4)The provisions of the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect as to the preparation and revision of the electoral register.

(5)For the purposes of this section, two or more persons in joint occupation of any land shall be treated as each occupying a proportionate part of the land.

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