No visitors will be allowed at the Gozo General Hospital, Mater Dei including SAMOC, Karin Grech and Mount Carmel Hospitals, all day this Thursday, the 28th of May.

However, the Electoral Commission, on the advice of the Hospital authorities, said that it may issue permits for relatives of patients who are very seriously ill and shall have the discretion to decide on the number of relatives allowed at any one time.

The Electoral Commission also appealed to relatives of voters recovering in these hospitals (who were thereat registered as patients up to 6pm of Monday, 25th May) that if they are in possession of the patient’s voting document, they are to immediately consign the said document to the patient to enable him/her to vote at the Hospital on Thursday.

It stressed that ”whoever holds a voting document pertaining to another person would effectively be denying the person’s right to vote, in breach of the law, which states that a … person who is in unlawful possession of any voting document… shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) or to imprisonment or to both such fine and imprisonment” (Art. 112, Cap. 354).

The Electoral Commission notified that when such cases arise, the Police authorities will be asked to intervene.

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