Qualifications of electors

As set out in sections 90 and 91 of the Cayman Islands (Constitution) Order 2009
coming in to force date – 6th November 2009

90.—(1) Subject to section 91, a person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in one
electoral district only, but he or she shall not be entitled to be registered as an elector for elections
to the Legislative Assembly unless—
(a) he or she was, on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this
Constitution, entitled to be registered as an elector; or
(b) he or she—
(i) is a Caymanian; and
(ii) has attained the age of eighteen years; and
(iii) is resident in the Cayman Islands at the date of registration; and
(iv) has been resident in the Cayman Islands for a period or periods amounting to not less
than two years out of the four years immediately preceding the date of registration;
or
(c) on the day of the issue of a writ ordering an election, he or she is otherwise qualified
under paragraph (b) but has not attained the age of eighteen years, but he or she will
attain that age on or before the polling day at the election.
(2) Any period of absence for any of the purposes specified in section 61(3) shall be disregarded
in determining whether a person is or has been resident in the Cayman Islands for the purposes of
this section.

Disqualifications of electors

91.—(1) A person shall not be entitled to be registered as an elector in any electoral district
who—
(a) subject to subsection (2), is serving a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name
called) exceeding twelve months imposed on him or her by a court in any country or
substituted by competent authority for some other sentence imposed on him or her by
such a court, or is under such a sentence of imprisonment the execution of which has been
suspended;
(b) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any
law in force in the Cayman Islands; or
(c) is disqualified for registration as an elector by any law in force in the Cayman Islands
relating to offences connected with elections.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—
(a) where a person is serving two or more sentences of imprisonment that are required to be
served consecutively he or she shall, throughout the whole time during which he or she so
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serves, be regarded as serving a sentence exceeding twelve months if (but not unless) any
one of those sentences exceeds that term;
(b) no account shall be taken of a sentence of imprisonment imposed as an alternative to or in
default of the payment of a fine; and
(c) no account shall be taken of a sentence of imprisonment imposed by a court outside the
Cayman Islands other than a sentence on conviction of an offence constituted by conduct
which, if it occurred within the Cayman Islands, would constitute an offence punishable
under the law of the Cayman Islands by imprisonment of twelve months or any greater
punishment.