Title : Returning Officer to Include Assistant Returning Officers Performing the Functions of the Returning Officer
State : Central
Year : 1951
References in this Act to the returning officer shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include an assistant returning officer performing any function which he is authorized to perform under sub-section (2) of section 22. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Provision of Polling Stations for Constituencies
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[25. Provision of polling stations for constituencies. - The district election officer shall, with the previous approval of the Election Commission, provide a sufficient number of polling stations for every constituency the whole or greater part of which lies within his jurisdiction, and shall publish, in such manner as the Election Commission 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.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 47 of 1966, Section 25 for section 25 w.e.f. 14-12-1966. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appointment of Presiding Officers for Polling Stations
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) The1[district election officer] shall appoint a presiding officer for each polling station and such polling officer or officers as he thinks necessary, but he shall not appoint any person who has been employed by or on behalf of, or has been otherwise working for, a candidate in or about the election: Provided that if a polling officer is absent from the polling station, the presiding officer may appoint any person who is present at the polling station other than a person who has been employed by or on behalf of, or has been otherwise working for, a candidate in or about the election, to be the polling officer during the absence of the former officer, and inform the1[district election officer] accordingly: 2[Provided further that nothing in this sub-section shall prevent..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Public Notice of Election
State : Central
Year : 1951
On the issue of a notification under section 30, the returning officer1[***] shall give public notice of the intended election in such form and manner as may be prescribed, inviting nominations of candidates for such election and specifying the place at which the nomination papers are to be delivered. ______________________ 1. The words "for the constituency" omitted by Act 47 of 1966, Section 28 w.e.f. 14-12-1966. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Election Agents
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[40. Election agents. - A candidate at an election may appoint in the prescribed manner any one person other than himself to be his election agent 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 23, for section 40. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : 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 : 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 : 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 section