General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1978)

• Section 56, subsection (1) states, "Any person who is registered as an elector in any constituency shall be entitled to vote in such manner as may be prescribed at any election for that constituency..."

Electoral Law
National Parliament Electoral Provisions Act
(1996, last amended 2010)

• Section 7, subsection (1) states, “For the purposes of an election in any electoral constituency there shall be a register of electors under Part II or subsection (2).”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1978)

• Section 49, subsection (1) states: "No person shall be qualified for election as a Member of Parliament who... (d) is certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law for the time being in force in Solomon Islands..."
• Section 55, subsection (3) states: "No person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector who... (b) is certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law for the time being in force in Solomon Islands..."

Electoral Law
National Parliament Electoral Provisions Act
(1996, last amended 2010)

• Section 14 states, “Any person who is entitled to be registered as an elector by section 55 of the Constitution shall be entitled to be registered as an elector under this Act.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
National Parliament Electoral Provisions Act
(1996, last amended 2010)

• Section 38, subsection (b), part (v) states, “He shall make a mark with indelible ink on the little finger of the elector’s left hand, or if such finger is missing on any other finger on his left hand. If all the fingers on his left hand are missing, the mark shall be made on any finger of his right hand.”
• Section 38, subsection (g) states, “Ff an elector by reason of blindness or other physical disability, is unable to cast his vote, he shall call the presiding officer aside and tell him, within the presence of a police officer or another polling assistant, the name of the candidate for whom he wishes to vote and the presiding officer shall record the elector's vote by placing a mark in the box on the ballot paper corresponding to the candidate for whom the elector wishes to vote and insert the marked folded ballot paper into the ballot box prior to the aforesaid elector leaving the polling station".

• Constitution - http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=198247
• National Parliament Electoral Provisions Act - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/index_html?filter&topic=&country=Solomon Islands&type=Laws and Regulations
• 2001 Amending Act - http://www.paclii.org/sb/legis/num_act/npepa2001506/
• 2005 Amending Act - http://www.paclii.org/sb/legis/num_act/nppa2005506/
• 2010 Amending Act - http://www.parliament.gov.sb/files/legislation/Acts/2010/National%20Parliament%20Electoral%20Provisions%20(Amendment)%20Act%202010.pdf