Act Info:
Preamble1 - PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1952
Part I Section1 - Short title
Section2 - Definitions
Part II Section3 - Returning Officer and his assistants
Section4 - Appointment of dates for nominations, etc
Section5 - Public notice of election
Section5A - Nomination of candidates
Section5B - Presentation of nomination papers and requirements fora valid nomination
Section5C - Deposit
Section5D - Notice of nominations and thetime and place for their scrutiny
Section5E - Scrutiny of nominations
Section6 - Withdrawal of candidature
Section7 - Death of candidate before poll
Section8 - Procedure in contested and uncontested elections
Section9 - Manner of voting at elections
Section10 - Counting of votes
Section11 - Declaration of results
Section12 - Report of the result
PartIII - DISPUTES REGARDING ELECTIONS
Section13 - Definitions
Section14 - Authority to try election petitions
Section14A - Presentation of petition
Section15 - Form of petitions, etc., and procedure
Section16 - Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner
Section17 - Orders of the Supreme Court
Section18 - Grounds for declaring the election of a returned candidate to be void
Section19 - Grounds for which a candidate other than the returned candidate may he declared to have been elected
Section20 - Transmission of orders to the Central Government and its publication
Part IV Section20A - Return or forfeiture of candidate's deposit
Section21 - Power to make rules
Section22 - Maintenance of secrecy of voting
Section23 - Jurisdiction of civil courts barred
Amending ActI - PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1977
Amending ActII - MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE