Title : Appointment of Counting Agents
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[47. Appointment of counting agents. - A contesting candidate or his election agent may appoint in the prescribed manner one or more persons, but not exceeding such number as may be prescribed, to the present as his counting agent or agents at the counting of votes, and when any such appointment is made notice of the appointment shall be given in the prescribed manner to the returning officer.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 28, for section 47. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Non-attendance of Polling or Counting Agents
State : Central
Year : 1951
Where any act or thing is required or authorised by or under this Act to be done in the presence of the polling or counting agents, the non-attendance of any such agent or agents at the time and place appointed for the purpose shall not, if the act or thing is otherwise duly done, invalidate the act or thing done. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Manner of Voting at Elections
State : Central
Year : 1951
At every election where a poll is taken votes shall be given by ballot in such manner as may be prescribed,1[and, save as expressly provided by this Act, no votes shall be received by proxy]. 2[Provided that the votes at every election to fill a seat or seats in the Council of States shall be given by open ballot.] ______________________ 1. Substituted for "and no votes shall be received by proxy" by The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003 (24 of 2003) w.e.f. 22.09.2003 2. Inserted by Act No. 40 of 2003 View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Special Prodecure for Voting by Certain Classes of Persons
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[60. Special prodecure for voting by certain classes of persons. - Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in section. 59, provision may be made, by rules made under this Act, for enabling-- (a) any of the persons as is referred to in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (8) of section 20 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950)(hereafter in this section referred to as the 1950-Act) to give his vote either in person or by postal ballot or by proxy, and not in any other manner, at an election in a constituency where poll is taken; (b) any of the following persons to give his vote either in person or by postal ballot, and not in any other manner, at an election in a constituency where a poll is taken, namely:-- (i) any person as is..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Special Procedure for Preventing Personation of Electors
State : Central
Year : 1951
1 [61. Specialprocedure for preventing personation of electors. - With a view to preventing personation ofelectors provision may be made by rules made under this Act:-- (a)for the making with indelible ink of the thumb or any other finger of everyelector who applies for a ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose ofvoting at a polling station before delivery of such paper or papers to him; (b) for the production before the presidingofficer or a polling officer of a polling station by every such elector asaforesaid of the identity card before the delivery of a ballot paper or ballotpapers to him if under rules made in that behalf under the Representation of thePeople Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), electors of the constituency in which the pollingstation is situated have been supplied..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Election to More Than One Seat in Either House of Parliament or in the House or Either House of the Legislature of a State
State : Central
Year : 1951
If a person is elected to more than one seat in either House of Parliament or in the House or either House of the Legislature of a State, then, unless within the prescribed time he resigns all but one of the seats1[by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker or Chairman, as the case may be, or to such other authority or officer as may be prescribed], all the seats shall become vacant. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 41, for sections 71 to 75. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Account of Election Expenses and Maximum Thereof
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) Every candidate at an election shall, either by himself or by his election agent, keep a separate and correct account of all expenditure in connection with the election incurred or authorized by him or by his election agent between 1 [the date on which he has been nominated] and the date of declaration of the result thereof, both dates inclusive. 2 [Explanation 1.--For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that-- (a) the expenditure incurred by leaders of a political party on account of travel by air or by any other means of transport for propagating programme of the political party shall not be deemed to be the expenditure in connection with the election incurred or authorised by a candidate of that political party or his election agent for the purposes of this..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Parties of the Petition
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[82. Parties of the petition.- A petitioner shall join as respondents to his petition- (a) where the petitioner, in addition to claiming declaration that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void, claims a further declaration that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected, all the contesting candidates other than the petitioner and where no such further declaration is claimed, all the returned candidates; and (b) any other candidate against whom allegations of any corrupt practice are made in the petition.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 45, for section 82. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Relief That May Be Claimed by the Petitioner
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[84. Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner.- A petitioner may, in addition to claiming a declaration that the election of all or any of the returned candidates is void, claim a further declaration that he himself or any other candidate has been duly elected.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 47, for section 84. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Procedure Before the High Court
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any rules made thereunder, every election petition shall be tried by the High Court, as nearly as may be, in accordance with the procedure applicable under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) to the trial of suits: Provided that the High Court shall have the discretion to refuse, for reasons to be recorded in writing, to examine any witness or witnesses if it is of the opinion that the evidence of such witness or witnesses is not material for the decision of petition or that the party tendering such witness or witnesses is doing so on frivolous grounds or with a view to delay the proceedings, (2) The provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), shall subject to the provisions of this Act, be deemed to apply in..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section