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JUST 48 hours after Prime Minister Stuart Young declared April 28 as election day, voters can now check their registration on a preliminary list due out on March 20. Further, voters now have nine days to get their details onto the list, either as first-time voters or as residents at a new address such as in a different constituency than before.

All of this is as a result of two legal notices issued by President Christine Kangaloo on March 19 (under the Representation of the People Act.)

The first item (legal notice 100) is a declaration to approve the existing preliminary list to be used, as a starting point, for the upcoming election. It explains that under the act, the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) must update its voter list in each electoral district so as to publish an "annual list" on July 1 each year, to stay in force until June 30 of the year after.