Know your door number... Electoral Office sets out on door numbering exercise

The Electoral Office has been legally tasked with ensuring that all doors are numbered appropriately. 

In the exercise, each door will be allocated with a unique number and tenants will be given 10 working days to affix the number should this be missing or changed.

The office will be providing stickers with the numbers as a temporary measure.

A leaflet which will be distributed by the Electoral Office explains that door numbers are essential for the delivery of mail and other services, to circumvent duplicate names of properties in the same street and identify the locality when one street is divided between two towns.

Property names will remain but the number should be given precedence in every correspondence and documentation.

The Electoral Office will be informing all relevant authorities through government’s common database if a number is changed or added.

However, tenants will be obliged to change their ID cards and inform service providers such as banks, schools, hospitals and employers if such changes take place.