How is the national electoral register created?

Trinidad and Tobago, Elections and Boundaries Commission, Representation of the People Act (Act 41 of 1967, last amended in 2000), accessed 9 August 2020

4. (1) There shall be a Registration Officer for each registration area and such number of Assistant Registration Officers, official photographers, clerks and messengers for each registration area in Trinidad and Tobago as the Commission may consider necessary to assist the Registration Officers in the discharge of their duties.

(2) The Chief Election Officer may assign Assistant Registration Officers to one or more polling divisions.

(3) If in his opinion circumstances so require, the Chief Election Officer may, and if so directed by the Commission, shall—

(a) require Assistant Registration Officers to visit every house within the polling divisions assigned to them and to receive applications for registration under the Registration Rules; […]

16. (1) From time to time and in accordance with this Act and the Rules made hereunder there shall be registered—(a) all persons who are qualified to be registered as electors; […]

29. (1) The Commission shall, in respect of each Parliamentary, Municipal Council and the Tobago House of Assembly electoral district, publish on 1st July of every year a list (hereinafter referred to as the annual list) of all persons qualified to be, and duly registered as, electors in that electoral district.

(2) The annual list shall continue in force until 30th June of the following year and on the commencement of an electoral registration shall be deemed to be the preliminary list of electors for that electoral district. […]

Registration Rules (Subsidiary Legislation)

9. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Rules, Assistant Registration Officers, when required in pursuance of section 4(3)(a) of the Act, shall—

(a) visit every house in the polling division assigned to them and receive applications for registration; and

(b) if satisfied that an applicant for registration is qualified to be registered, effect the registration of the applicant. […]

(3) For the purpose of completing registrations for which applications are received under sub-rule (1), an official photographer shall accompany Assistant Registration Officers, and shall, subject to rules 23(5) and 24, and after the provisions of rule 23(1) have been complied with, take the photograph of every such applicant.

50. (1) The Commission shall, once in every year, cause to be prepared the list of electors of each electoral district which the Commission is required to publish in every year pursuant to section 29 of the Act.

(2) For the purpose of complying with subrule (1), the Registration Officer of every registration area shall cause to be prepared a list of all persons duly registered as electors in each Parliamentary, Municipal Council and Tobago House of Assembly electoral district in his registration area.