VIRGIN
IsLaNDs.

- When deposit
forfeited or
returned.

Contested
elections,
publicatian of
date and place,
etc.

Form No. 10.

Power to
adjourn poll,

34 9 Vairyin Islands Constitution No. 7 of 1954,
and Llections,

taking of the poll, the deposit, if made by him,
shall be returned to lis legal personal representa-
tive, or, if not made by him, shall be returned to
the person by whom it was made.

53. (1) If a candidate who has made such
deposit ig not elected and the number of votes
polled by him does not exceed one-sixteenth of
the total number of votes polled, the amount
deposited shall be forfeited to the Crown; in any
other case the deposit shall be returned ‘by the
Treasurer of the Presidency, as soon as practierble
after the result of the election is declared, to the
candidate, his legal personal representative, or-the
person by whom the deposit was made, as the
case may be.

(2) For the purposes of this section the
number of votes polled shall be deemed to be the
number of the ballot papers (other than rejected
ballot papers) counted.

54. (1) If in an electoral district there
shall be more candidates duly nominated than there
are seats to be filled, a poll shall be taken, and in
such case the returning officer shall adjourn the
election to the day specified in the writ, and the
poll shall be taken on such day in the manner
hereinafter provided.

(2) The returning officer shall, as soon as
practicable after adjourning the election, publish
a notice in the form set out as Form No. LO in the
Second Schedule specifying the day and time on
which and the locations of the polling stations in
the electoral district at. which the poll will be taken
and of the names of the candidates nominated for
election and of the place where and the day and
time when the number of votes given to the
several candidates for such electoral district. will
be counted.

(3) Where the proceedings at any polling
station are interrupted or obstructed by riot, or
open violence, or by the occurence of any earth-
quake, hurricane, flood, fire, outbreak of pestilence
or outbreak of infections disease or other calamity