Legislative Council (Elections).


 PROCEDURE AT ELECTIONS.
Nomination of .23. (1) On the day-and at the place fixed for the nomination
Candidates.. of candidates, the returning officer shall attend at nine o'clock in
 he morning to receive the nomination of candidates for the seat
 to be filled.
 S (2) Every. candidate for election-
 (i) must, be nominated in writing by not less than six
 registered electors of tthe' electoral district for which he.
 seeks to be elected, and .
 (ii) must-consent in..writin'g to.such n':,mina tioi,.iin the form
 set out as Form No. 25 in the First Schedule : Provided
 that no candidate. shall be,.dee-lned 'n:t. .to have been
 vadlidly-: nominated by reason, only of 'the fact that
 S, subsequelit to nomination, day any person by whom his
 nomination .paper was signed is struck" off the list of
 '-.". electors for ..the relevant electoral district: Provided
 further that no electiorn- officer' shall be eligible for
 .nomination as a candidate-for-election as a member of the
 Legislative .Council.
 (3) The .returning officer shall at the place aforesaid and at
 -the time aforesaid and withi'i three hours thereafter receive such'
 nomination papers as may be tendered to him.,
 S(4) Every candidate shall at, the time. of his nomination
 .deliver or cause to be. delivered to the returning officer a statutory
 declaration of- his-qualifications made and subscribed by such/
 candidate or, if the candidate is absent from the Colony on
 nomination -day by his duly authorised agent, in the form set out
 as Form-No. 26 or Form No. 26a. as the case may be, in the First
 Schedule. If such statutory declaration is not "delivered as
 aforesaid the nomination of such candidate shall be deemed to be
 void.
 (5) Every candidate or someone on- his behalf shall at the
 time of his nomination deposit, or cause to be. deposited, with the
 returning officer, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars in
 S cash and if he -fails to do so the nomination ,of such candidate
 shall be deemed to be void.

Disposal of 24. (1) The full amount of -every deposit made' under
deposit. subsection (5) of the-last preceding section shall forthwith after
 its receipt be. transmitted by the returning officer to theColonial
 Treasurer.
 (2) The full-amount of every such deposit'shall be returned
 by the Colonial Treasurer to the-person who made such deposit or
 his personal representatives, as the case may be, upon the
 production by him or by them, within, one month of the conclusion
 of the election in respectof which the- deposit was made,, of a
 certificate from the Supervisor of Elections that the candidate


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1951.