No. 7 of 1954, Virgin Islands Constitution 53 Viren
and Elections. IsLANDS.

ballot boxes used at such election, with their locks
and keys and the screens and other appliances used
in the polling station to be transmitted or delivered
to the Supervisor of Elections.

PART V.
Erection PETITIONS.

81  A_ petition complaining of an undue Petitions
return or undue election of a member of the as
Council (in this Ordinance called an election
petition) may be presented to the Supreme Court
by any one or more of the following persons, that
is to say—

(a) some person who voted or had a
right to vote at the election tv which the
petition relates;

(6) some person claiming to have had a
right to be returned at such election;

(c) some person alleging himself to have
been a candidate at such election.

82. (1) The following provisions shall Presentation
apply with respect to the presentation of an elec- of “tection |
tion petition— an a

costs,
(a) the petition shall be presented within
twenty-one days after the return made by the

returning officer of the member to whose

election the petition relates, unless it ques-

tions the return or election upon an allegation

of corrupt practices and specifically alleges a

payment of money or other reward to have

been made by any member, er on his account,

ov with his privity, since the time of such

return, in pursuance or in furtherance of such

corrupt practices, in which case the petition

may be presented at any time within twenty-

eight days after the date of such payment;

(b) at the time of the presentation of
the petition, or withiu three days afterward:,
security for the payment of all costs, charges