Title : Qualification for Membership of the Council of States
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[3. Qualification for membership of the Council of States. - A person shall not be qualified to be chosen as a representative of any State2[***] or Union territory in the Council of States unless he is an elector for a Parliamentary constituency3[in India]] ______________________ 1. Substituted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for section 3. 2. Inserted by Act 47 of 1966, Section 18 w.e.f. 14-12-1966. 3. Substituted for the words "in that State or territory" by Act No. 40 of 2003 View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Qualifications for Membership of a Legislative Assembly
State : Central
Year : 1951
A person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Assembly of a State unless -- (a) in the case of a seat reserved for the Scheduled Castes or for the Scheduled Tribes of that State, he is a member of any of those castes or of those tribes, as the case may be, and is an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State; (b) in the case of a seat reserved for an autonomous district of Assam,1[***] he is member of a2[Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district] and is an elector for the Assembly constituency in which such seat or any other seat is reserved for that district; and (c) in the case of any other seat, he is an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State: 3[Provided that for the period referred to in clause (2) of article 371 A, a..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : General Duties of Chief Electoral Officers
State : Central
Year : 1951
1 [20. General duties of chief electoral officers. - Subject to the superintendence, direction and control of the Election Commission, the chief electoral officer of each State shall supervise the conduct of all elections in the State under this Act. ______________________ 1. Substituted by act 27 of 1956, Section 9, for sections 20 and 21 View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Observers
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[20B. Observers. - (1) The Election Commission may nominate an Observer who shall be an officer of Government to watch the conduct of election or elections in a constituency or a group of constituencies and to perform such other functions as may be entrusted to him by the Election Commission. (2) The Observer nominated under sub-section (1) shall have the power to direct the returning officer for the constituency or for any of the constituencies for which he has been nominated, to stop the counting of votes at any time before the declaration of the result or not to declare the result if in the opinion of the Observer booth capturing has taken place at a large number of polling stations or at places fixed for the poll or counting of votes or any ballot papers used at a polling..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Disqualification for Being an Election Agent
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[41. Disqualification for being an election agent Any person who is for the time being disqualified under the Constitution or under this Act for being a member of either House of Parliament or the House or either House of the Legislature of a State or for voting at elections, shall, so long as the disqualification subsists, also be disqualified for being an election agent at any election.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 47 of 1966, Section 31, for section 41 w.e.f. 14-12-1966. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Functions of Election Agents
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[45. Functions of election agents. - An election agent may perform such functions in connection with the election as are authorised by or under this Act to be performed by an election agent.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 26, for section 45. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Eligibility of Members of Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes to Hold Seats Not Reserved for Those Castes or Tribes
State : Central
Year : 1951
For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that a member of the Scheduled Castes or of the Scheduled Tribes shall not be disqualified to hold a seat not reserved for members of those castes or tribes, if he is otherwise qualified to hold such seats under the Constitution and this Act1[or under the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963), as the case may be.] ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 20 of 1963, Section 57 and the Second Schedule. The words "or under the Government of Part C States Act, 1951 (49 of 1951), as the case may be" Inserted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 32, and omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No.2) Order, 1956. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Fixing Time for Poll
State : Central
Year : 1951
The1[Election Commission] shall fix the hours during which the poll will be taken; and the hours so fixed shall be published in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that the total period allotted on any one day for polling at an election in2[a Parliamentary or Assembly constituency] shall not be less than eight hours. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 34, for "appropriate authority". 2. Substituted by Act 58 of 1958, Section 23, for "a Constituency". View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Adjournment of Poll or Countermanding of Election on the Ground of Booth Caputring
State : Central
Year : 1951
1[58A. Adjournment of poll or countermanding of election on the ground of booth caputring. - (1) If at any election,-- (a) booth capturing has taken place at a polling station or at a place fixed for the poll (hereafter in this section referred to as a place) in such a manner that the result of the poll at that polling station or place cannot be ascertained; or (b) booth capturing takes place in any place for counting of votes in such a manner that the result of the counting at that place cannot be ascertained, the returning officer shall forthwith report the matter to the Election Commission. (2) The Election Commission shall, on the receipt of a report from the returning officer under sub-section (1) and after taking all material circumstances into account, either,-- (a)..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Counting of Votes
State : Central
Year : 1951
At everyelection where a poll is taken, votes shall be counted by or under the 1 [supervisionand direction] of, the returning officer, and each 2 [contestingcandidate], his election agent and his 3 [counting agents], shall havea right to be present at the time of counting. ______________________ 1.Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section36, for "supervision". 2.Substituted by Act 58 of 1958 Section 26,for "candidate". 3.Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section36, for "counting agent". View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section