How is the national electoral register created?

Tuvalu, ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (PARLIAMENT) ACT (2008, last amended in 2014), accessed 10 September 2019

5 Registration of electors.

(1) For the purpose of this Act and section 90(1) of the Constitution, there shall be a register of electors for each electoral district.

(2) Every person who is a citizen of Tuvalu and has attained the age of 18 years and who is not disqualified under the provisions of section 92 of the Constitution shall be entitled on application to be registered on the electoral register of his home island. […]

(4) Any application for registration under this section shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2 to this Act.

64 Regulations.

The Minister may by writing under his hand make regulations for carrying the foregoing provisions of this Act into effect and without prejudicing the generality of this provision:

(i) the preparing and keeping of electoral registers;

(ii) the person or persons to whom applications for registration as an elector are to be made;

(iii) the periodic review of electoral registers and for dealing with omissions and objections thereto;

(iv) the review of registers of electors whether periodic or otherwise to ensure that no elector is registered more than once.

Tuvalu, ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (PARLIAMENT) REGULATIONS, accessed 10 September 2019

5 Registration of Voters.

(1) The Minister shall by notice appoint a Registration Officer for each electoral district who shall be responsible for the preparation, maintenance and a revision of the Register in that district.

(2) The Minister shall by notice appoint an officer in Niulakita to be called the Niulakita Registration Officer.