26(1)Where an enumeration is directed, the enumerator or enumerators appointed to conduct such enumeration in any polling division or part of a polling division shall proceed forthwith in accordance with the terms of their appointment to ascertain the names of all persons residing in the designated enumeration area who are qualified under this Act to vote in that polling division, obtaining the information required by a house-to-house visitation, except to a public hospital, and from such other sources as may be available.

26(2)An enumerator or enumerators shall leave at the residence of every person who applies to be registered as an elector and to have their name added to the list of electors a notice in the prescribed form signed by the enumerator or enumerators, and detached from the enumerator’s record book, stating that such application has been granted, or refused, as the case may be, and indicating the location of the polling station, if applicable, at which the person may vote.

26(3)Where, on the visitation referred to in subsection (1), the enumerator or the enumerators are unable to communicate with any person from whom he or they could secure the names and particulars of the qualified electors residing at any dwelling place, the enumerator or the enumerators shall leave at that dwelling place in notification card, as prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer, on which shall be stated