Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
If the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer for a Municipality, on an application made to him or on his own motion, is satisfied after such inquiry as he thinks fit, that, any entry in the electoral roll of the Municipality- (a) is erroneous or defective in any particular, (b) should be transposed to another place in the electoral roll on the ground that the person concerned has changed his place of ordinary residence within the jurisdiction of the Municipality, (c) should be deleted on the ground that the person concerned is dead or has ceased to be ordinarily resident within the jurisdiction of the Municipality or is otherwise not entitled to be registered in that electoral roll, the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer shall, subject to such general or special directions, if any, as may be given by the Commission in this behalf amend. transpose or delete the entry: Provided that before taking any action on any ground under clause ( a) or clause (b) or any action under clause (c) on the ground that the person concerned has ceased to be ordinarily resident within the jurisdiction of the Municipality or that he is otherwise not entitled to be registered in the electoral roll of that Municipality, the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer shall give the person concerned a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of the action proposed to be taken in relation to him. Inclusion of names in electoral rolls.