When a person is registered for the first time, what must the filing designate, and what does the provision say about changing that designation afterwards?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this practice exercise, we read the registration application to see what registration base place it designates, since the provision requires one to be fixed at first registration. We also look for any later paper showing the base place was changed, though the provision itself names no required papers. The exercise file's own evidence field states that it is practice material.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the first registration as the point at which the designation is made: where a registration is carried out for the first time because of a birth or some other reason, the person filing must fix a registration base place in the reported filing, so an application that designates no place does not meet what the provision requires.
Another reading stresses the provision's silence on the basis for the choice: it says a base place is to be fixed and reported, but sets no condition tying the designated place to any fact, and it leaves the content of a later change to the procedure set by a rule of the Supreme Court rather than to anything written in the Act itself.
Your judgment
If a later paper in the file shows the base place was changed, what would show whether that change followed the procedure set by a Supreme Court rule?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to set conditions on which place may be designated at first registration, or if a Supreme Court rule under the change procedure specifies the papers a change must be supported by.