Title : Abatement of Election Petitions
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[112. Abatement of election petitions (1) An election petition shall abate only on the death of a sole petitioner or of the survivor of several petitioners. (2) Where an election petition abates under sub-section (1), the High Court shall cause the fact to be published in such manner as it may deem fit. (3) Any person who might himself have been a petitioner may, within fourteen days of such publication, apply to be substituted as petitioner and upon compliance with the conditions if any, as security, shall be entitled to be so substituted and to continue the proceedings upon such terms as the High Court may deem fit.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 47 of 1966, Section 48, for section 112 to 115 w.e.f. 14-12-1966. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Corrupt Practices
State : Central
Year : 1951
The following shall be deemed to be corrupt practices for the purposes of this Act:-- 1[(1) "Bribery" that is to say-- (A) any gift offer or promise by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent of any gratification, to any person whomsoever, with the objects, directly or indirectly of inducing-- (a) a person to stand or not to stand as, or2[to withdraw or not to withdraw] from being a candidate at an election, or (b) an elector to vote or refrain from voting at an election, or as a reward to- (i) a person for having so stood or not stood, or for3[having withdrawnor not having withdrawn] his candidature; or (ii) an elector for having voted or refrained from voting; (B) the receipt of, or agreement to receive, any..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Promoting Enmity Between Classes in Connection with Election
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[125. Promoting enmity between classes in connection with election. - Any person who in connection with an election under this Act promotes or attempts to promote on grounds of religion, race, caste, community or language, feelings of enmity or hatred, between different classes of the citizens of India shall he punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.] ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 40 of 1961, Section 24 w.e.f. 20-9-1961. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Prohibition of Public Meetings During Period of Forty-eight Hours Ending with Hour Fixed for Conclusion of Poll
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[126. Prohibition of public meetings during period of forty-eight hours ending with hour fixed for conclusion of poll (1) No person shall-- (a) convene, hold, attend, join or address any public meeting or procession in connection with an election; or (b) display to the public any election matter by means of cinematograph, "television or other similar apparatus; or (c) propagate any election matter to the public by holding, or by arranging the holding of, any musical concert or any theatrical performance or any other entertainment or amusement with a view to attracting the members of the public thereto, in any polling area during the period of forty-eight hours ending with the hour fixed for the conclusion of the poll for any election in that polling area. (2) Any person who..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Restrictions on the Printing of Pamphlets, Posters, Etc.
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[127A. Restrictions on the printing of pamphlets, posters, etc. - (1) No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any election pamphlet or poster which does not bear on its face the names and addresses of the printer and the publisher thereof. (2) No person shall print or cause to be printed any election pamphlet or poster--- (a) unless a declaration as to the identity of the publisher thereof, signed by him and attested by two persons to whom he is personally known, is delivered by him to the printer in duplicate; and (b) unless, within a reasonable time after the printing of the document, one copy of the declaration is sent by the printer, together with one copy of the document,-- (i) where it is printed in the capital of the State, to the Chief..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Disorderly Conduct in or Near Polling Stations
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) No person shall, on the date or dates on which a poll is taken at any polling station,-- (a) use or operate with in or at the entrance of the polling station, or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof, any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as a megaphone or a loudspeaker, or (b) shout, or otherwise act in a disorderly manner, within or at the entrance of the polling station or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof, so as to cause annoyance to any person visiting the polling station for the poll, or so as to interfere with the work of the officers and other persons on duty at the polling station. (2) Any person who contravenes, or wilfully aids or abets the contravention of, the provisions of sub-section (1)..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Amendment of Act 5 of 1898 [Repealed]
State : Central
Year : 1951
[Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act 1957 (36 of 1957), Section 2 and the First Schedule]. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : List of Members of the State Legislative Assemblies and Electoral Colleges to Be Maintained by Returning Officers Concerned
State : Central
Year : 1951
(1) The returning officer for an electionby the elected members of the Legislative Assembly of a State to fill a seat orseals in the Council of States or for an election, by the members of theLegislative Assembly of a State to fill a seat or seats in the LegislativeCouncil of the State shall, for the purposes of such election maintain in hisoffice in the prescribed manner and form a list of elected members or a list ofmembers, as the case may be, of that Legislative Assembly. (2) The returning officer for an electionby the members of the electoral college for a 1 [Union territory] 2 [***]3 [***] to fill a seat or seats in the Council of States shall, forthe purposes of such election, maintain in his office in the prescribed mannerand form a list of members of that electoral college 3..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Term of Office of Members of the Council of States
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (2A), the term of office of a member of Council of States, other than a member chosen to till a casual vacancy, shall be six years.] (2)2[***] Upon the first constitution of the Council of States the President shall, after constitution with the Election Commission, make by order such provision as he thinks fit for curtailing the term of office of some of the members then chosen in order that, as nearly as may be, one-third of the members holding seats of each class shall retire in every second year thereafter. 3[(2A) In order that, as nearly as may be, one-third of the members may retire on the second day of April, 1958, and on the expiration of every second year thereafter, the President shall, as soon as may be after the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Repeal of Act 39 of 1920 [Repealed]
State : Central
Year : 1951
(Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (36 of 1957) Section 2 and Schedule 1]. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section