If electoral register is created by the EMB, which method is used?

Electoral Law (1980, last amended in 2013)

Register of electors and annual revision

23.—(1). [Repealed by Act No. 5/10]

(2) The Registration Officer shall, in 1980 and every subsequent year, other than a year in which he is required to act under section 16, on a day determined by the Commission [Inserted by Act No. 5/10]

(a) in the manner prescribed by section 16, invite any person whose name is not in the book and who desires and claims that he is entitled to be registered as an elector to give notice of his claim; and

(b) if he is satisfied that any person has died, become disqualified or is not qualified, inform the Commission that the person’s name is to be deleted from the register. [Inserted by Act No. 5/10]

(2A)  For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), section 19A(1) is modified as follows –

“(1)  In the course of making a list under subsection 18(1) of electors for a ward or part of a ward in a registration area, the Commission shall determine whether it appears that any person who has claimed to be entitled to be registered as an elector in the ward –

(a)  has made another claim or claims in relation to another part of the ward or another ward in the registration area; or

(b)  is already registered as an elector in another part of the ward or another ward in the registration area; or

(c)  if the Commission is also updating the register for another registration area, has made another claim or claims in relation to that other registration area or is already on the register for a ward in that other registration area.” [Inserted by Act No. 5/10]

(3) Where the Registration Officer is satisfied that any person claiming under subsection (2)(a) is entitled to be registered as an elector in a registration area, the Registration Officer shall inform the Commission that the person’s name is to be inserted in the register. [Inserted by Act No. 5/10]

(4) The Commission shall, if informed by a Registration Officer under this section that a person’s name is to be deleted from or inserted in the register –

(a)  alter the register accordingly; and

(b)  publish annually, in a manner it considers appropriate, a list showing the names deleted from or inserted in the register. [Repeated and replaced by Act No. 5/10]

According to the law, the register is updated annually.