FOURTH SCHEDULE. QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS (Sections 92, 121, 124, 125 and 158)
1. Qualifications for registration as voter
- Subject to subparagraph (2) and to paragraph 2, a person is qualified to be registered as a voter on the voters roll of a constituency if he or she–
- is of or over the age of eighteen years; and
- is a Zimbabwean citizen.
- The Electoral Law may prescribe additional residential requirements to ensure that voters are registered on the most appropriate voters roll, but any such requirements must be consistent with this Constitution, in particular with section 67.
2. Disqualifications for registration as voter
A person is disqualified to be registered as a voter–
- while he or she is detained as mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped under an Act of Parliament relating to mental health;
- if he or she has been declared by order of a court to be incapable of managing his or her affairs, for so long as the order remains in force; or
- if he or she has been convicted of an offence under the Electoral Law and declared by the High Court to be disqualified for registration as a voter or from voting, for the period he has been declared disqualified, but the period must not exceed five years.
