ACT No. XVII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the General Elections Act, to provide for the registration of voters who are persons that have attained the age of sixteen years.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

27th May, 2014

ACT No. XVII of 2014

AN ACT to amend the General Elections Act, to provide for the

registration of voters who are persons that have attained the age of

sixteen years.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the General Elections Short title.

(Amendment) Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read and construed as

one with the General Elections Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Cap. 354.

principal Act".

In sub-article (2) of article 33 of the principal Act, for the Amendment of

words "as there are divisions." there shall be substituted the words "as article

principal Act.

there are divisions:" and immediately thereafter there shall be added

the following new proviso

"Provided that the Electoral Register published in the

format that is divided into as many parts as there are localities

shall have an Annex indicating the registration of voters that

have attained the age of sixteen years but have not attained the

age of eighteen years on the election of 2015 onwards of the

Local Councils or the Administrative Committees.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 151 of the

20th May, 2014.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk to the House of Representatives