Fiji

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability

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Section 3, subsection (1) states:

A person who-

• (a) has reached the age of eighteen (18) years; and
• (b) is a citizen of Fiji, shall have the right to be registered as a voter.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral (Registration of Voters) Decree (2012)

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Section 3, subsection (2) states:

Any person who, during the registration period, is…

• (b) adjudged or declared to have a mental disorder, shall not have the right to be or shall cease to have the right to be registered as a voter…

 

Section 12, subsection (1) states:

The Permanent Secretary may revise the National Register of Voters to…(

• c) remove from the National Register of Voters the name of any person whom the Permanent Secretary has good reason to believe…
  • (iii) has been adjudged or otherwise declared to have a mental disorder under any law in force in Fiji…

 

Excerpts from the Electoral (Registration of Voters) Decree (2012)