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(c) The Post Office, Valley, Virgin Gorda
(d) The Post Office, East End
(e) The Post Office, Road Town
(f) The Post Office, West End
(g) The Post Office, Carrot Bay
(h) The Post Office, Cane Garden Bay
(i) The Government Office, Jost Van Dyke
Form No. 7 is also available at the Office of Smith‟s Ferry in St. Thomas.
4. The qualifications for voters are set out in section 68 of the Virgin Islands
(Constitution) Order 2007, which is in the following terms:
Qualification of voters “68.
(1) Subject to subsection (3),
a person shall be qualified to be registered as a voter for the purposes of elections if, and
shall not be so qualified unless, he or she belongs to the Virgin Islands and on the
qualifying date has attained the age of eighteen years and he or she either -
(a) is domiciled and resident in the Virgin Islands on the qualifying date; or
(b) on that date is domiciled in the Virgin Islands and resident in the United States
Virgin Islands:
(2) Subject to subsection (3), any person who was qualified to be
registered as a voter immediately before the commencement of this
Constitution shall continue to be so qualified thereafter.
(3) No person shall be qualified to be registered as a voter under this section who on the
qualifying date –
a. is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under
any law in force in the Virgin Islands;
b. is disqualified by or under any such law from being registered
as a voter for the purposes of elections by reason of his or her
having been convicted of an offence relating to elections; or
c. is under sentence of death imposed on him or her by a court or is serving a sentence
of imprisonment (by whatever named called) for a term exceeding twelve months
imposed on him or her by a court or substituted by competent authority for some
other sentence imposed on him or her by a court.
(4) In this section “the qualifying date” means such date as may
be appointed by or under any law in force in the Virgin Islands as the
date with reference to which the qualifications or any person for
registration are to be ascertained.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (3)(c) –
a. two or more sentences of imprisonment that are required to be served consecutively
shall be regarded as separate sentences if none of those sentences exceeds twelve
month, but if any one
of those sentences exceeds that term they shall be regarded as one sentence, and