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Home Bare Acts Phrase: exit pollRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 126A
Title: Restriction on Publication and Dissemination of Result of Exit Polls, Etc
State: Central
Year: 1951
.....party or candidate in an election; (b) "electronic media" includes internet, radio and television including Internet Protocol Television, satellite, terrestrial of cable channels, mobile and such other media either owned by the Government or private person or by both; (c) "print media" includes any newspaper, magazine or periodical, poster, placard, handbill or any other document; (d) "dissemination" includes publication in any "print media" or broadcast or display on any electronic media.] _______________________________ 1. Inserted by the Representation of the people (Amendment) Act, 2009 [Act No. 41 of 2009] to be effective from 01.02.2010 vide Notification No. S.O.225(E) dated 01.02.2010.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Complete Act
Title: Goa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed]
State: Central
Year: 1966
.....of electors Section23 - Voting at an opinion poll Section24 - Counting of votes Section25 - Destruction, loss, etc., of ballot papers at the time of counting Section26 - Declaration of results Section27 - Report of the result Section28 - Offences at opinion poll Section29 - Fresh opinion poll in case of extensive prevalence of offences referred to in section 28 Section30 - Other electoral offences Section31 - Application of certain provisions of Act 43 of 1951 Section32 - Delegation of functions of Chief Election Commissioner Section33 - Power to make rules Section34 - Jurisdiction of civil courts barred Section35 - Removal of difficulties Repealing Act1 - DELHI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (VALIDATION OF ELECTRICITY TAX) ACT AND OTHER LAWS (REPEAL) ACT, 2002
List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 12
Title: Appointment of Presiding Officers for Polling Stations
State: Central
Year: 1966
..... Provided further that nothing in this sub-section shall prevent the opinion poll commissioner from appointing the same person to be the presiding officer for more than one polling station in the same premises. (2) A polling officer shall, if so directed by the presiding officer, perform all or any of the functions of the presiding officer under this Act and any rules or orders made thereunder. (3) If the presiding officer, owing to illness or other unavoidable cause, is obliged to absent himself form the polling station, his functions shall be performed by such polling officer as has been previously authorised by the opinion poll commissioner to perform such functions during any such absence. (4) References in this Act to the presiding officer shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include any person performing any functions which he is directed or authorised to perform under sub-section (2) of sub-section (3), as the case may be.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 18
Title: Adjournment of Opinion Poll in Emergencies
State: Central
Year: 1966
.....the presiding officer for such polling station shall announce an adjournment of the opinion poll to a date to be notified later, and where the opinion poll is so adjourned by a presiding officer, he shall forthwith inform the opinion poll commissioner concerned. (2) Whenever an opinion poll is adjourned under sub-section (1), the opinion poll commissioner shall immediately report the circumstances to the Chief Election Commissioner and shall, as soon as may be, with the previous approval of the Chief Election Commissioner, appoint the day on which the opinion poll shall recommence and fix the polling station at which, and the hours during which, the opinion poll will be taken, and shall not count the votes cast at such opinion poll until such adjourned opinion poll shall have been completed. (3) In every such case as aforesaid, the opinion poll commissioner shall notify, in such manner as the Chief Election Commissioner may direct, the date, place and hours of polling fixed under sub-section (2).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 19
Title: Fresh Opinion Poll in Case of Destruction, Etc., of Ballot Boxes
State: Central
Year: 1966
.....poll at that polling station to be void, appoint a day, and fix the hours, for taking a fresh opinion poll at that polling station and notify the day so appointed and the hours so fixed in such manner as he may deem fit, or (b) if satisfied that the result of a fresh opinion poll at that polling station will not, in any way, affect the result of the opinion poll or that the error or irregularity in procedure is not material, issue such directions to the opinion poll commissioner as he may deem proper for the further conduct and completion of the opinion poll. (3) The provisions of this Act and the rules or orders made thereunder shall apply to every such fresh opinion poll as they apply to the original opinion poll.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 29
Title: Fresh Opinion Poll in Case of Extensive Prevalence of Offences Referred to in Section 28
State: Central
Year: 1966
(1) If the Chief Election Commissioner, on receipt of a report from the opinion poll commissioner or otherwise, is satisfied that the opinion poll taken at any polling station or stations has not been a free one by reason that any of the offences referred to in section 28 has been extensively committed in connection with such poll, he may make a report to the President recommending that a fresh opinion poll be taken at such polling station or stations. (2) The president may, after considering the report of the Chief Election Commissioner, direct that a fresh opinion poll shall be taken at such polling station or stations in accordance with the previsions of this Act and the rules or orders made thereunder and give such further directions for the completion of the opinion poll as he considers necessary.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 7
Title: Opinion Poll Commissioner
State: Central
Year: 1966
The Chief Election Commissioner shall designate or nominate one opinion poll commissioner in relation to the opinion poll in Goa and one opinion poll commissioner in relation to the opinion poll in Daman and Diu and each such opinion poll commissioner shall be an officer of Government.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 8
Title: Assistant Opinion Poll Commissioners
State: Central
Year: 1966
(1) The Chief Election Commissioner may appoint one or more persons to assist the opinion poll commissioner in the performance of his functions, and every such person shall be an officer of Government and shall be called an assistant poll commissioner. (2) Every assistant opinion poll commissioner shall, subject to the control of the opinion poll commissioner, be competent to perform all or any of the functions of the opinion poll commissioner.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 11
Title: Provision of Polling Stations
State: Central
Year: 1966
The opinion poll commissioner of Goa and the opinion poll commissioner of Daman and Diu shall, with the previous approval of the Chief Election Commissioner, provide a sufficient number of polling stations respectively for Goa and for Daman and Diu, and shall publish, in such manner as the Chief Election Commissioner may direct, a list showing the polling stations so provided and the polling areas or groups of voters for which they have respectively been provided.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 9
Title: Opinion Poll Commissioner to Include Assistant Opinion Poll Commissioners Performing the Functions of Opinion Poll Commissioner
State: Central
Year: 1966
Reference in this Act to the opinion poll commissioner shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include an assistant opinion poll commissioner performing any function which he is competent to perform under sub-section (2) of section 8.
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