VIRGIN
IsLANDs,

Form No. 9.

Withdrawal of
candidature.

32 Virgin Islands Constitution No. 7 of 1954:
and Elections,

(4) On the day and at the place so fixed for
the nomination of candidates every returning officer
shall attend between the hours of ten o’clock in
the forenoon and one o’clock in the afternoon and
between the hours of two o’clock and four o’clock
in the afternoon and receive the nomination of any
duly qualified candidate for the seat to be filled.

(5) Every candidate for election shall be
nominated on one nomination paper by at least two
registered voters of the electoral district for which
such candidate seeks election and his consent to
nomination shall be given in writing on such nomi-
nation paper and attested by one witness: ;

Provided that no candidate shall be deemed
not to have been validly nominated by reason only
of the fact that subsequent to nomination day any
person by whom his nomination paper was signed
is struck off the Register of Voters for the relevant
electoral district.

(6) If at four o’clock in the afternoon in an
electoral district for which one member is to be
returned only one candicate has been nominated
for the seat to be filled, and at an election in an
electoral district for which two members are to be
returned only two candidates have been nominated
for the seats to be filled, the returning officer shall
declare that candidate or those candidates elected
and shall immediately thereafter certify by endorse-
ment on the writ the return of such candidate or
candidates, as the case may be, in the form set out
as Form No. 9 in the Second Schedule and shall
return the writ so endorsed to the Supervisor of
Elections for transmission to the Commissioner
within the time specified for that purpose therein.

(7) Any candidate duly nominated may, not
less than three clear days before the day fixed for
taking the poll, withdraw from his candidature by
giving notice to the effect, signed by him, to the
returning officer; provided that on such withdrawal
there remain not less than two duly nominated