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Chief Election Commissioner, 'Chief Election Commissioner' means the Chief Election Commissioner appointed under Article 324 of the Constitution [Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Conditions of Service) Act, (11 of 1991), s. 2(a)]...
Election Commissioner
Election Commissioner, 'Election Commissioner' means any other Election Commissioner appointed under article 324 of the Constitution, s. 2(c)....
Election Commissioners
Election Commissioners, are commissioners appointed by the Crown on the joint address of both Houses of Parliament to inquire into the report made by judges on the trial of an election petition (q.v.) that corrupt and illegal practices took place on an extensive scale at an election. The Commissioners report to Parliament, whereupon the constituency may be disfranchised by statute or by refusal of the House of Commons to issue a writ....
Election Commission
Election Commission, 'Election Commission' means the Election Commission referred to in Article 324. [Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 (1 of 1992), s. 2(d)]Means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324. [Representation of the People Act, 1950, s. 2 (d)]The Chief Election Commissioner can be removed only in the like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of a Supreme Court; his conditions of service cannot be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. An Election Commissioner or Regional Commissioner can be removed from office only on the recommendations of the Chief Election Commissioner. [Constitution of India, Art. 394(5)]Is a Constitutional body in India, created for the pur-pose of holding elections to Parliament, State Legislatures and Offices of President and Vice-President. [Constitution of India, Art. 324]Can disqualify a person for six years from voting on ground of conviction for certain offences. [Representati...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Collective litigation
Collective litigation, a phrase coined by Justice Iyer to denote and classify election disputes. According to him election disputes are not strictly disputes between two parties. The whole electorate is vicariously before the court. [Mohinder Singh v. Election Commissioner, AIR 1978 SC 851 (861), para 15]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Panchayat Electoral Registration offices
Panchayat Electoral Registration offices, means an officer appointed as such by the State Election Commissioner under sub-s. (1) of s. 6 of the West Bengal State Election Commission Act, 1994 (West Bengal Act 8 of 1994) and includes an Assistant Panchayat Electoral Registration Officer. [West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, 2003, s. 2(17)]...
Panchayat Returning Officer
Panchayat Returning Officer, means an officer appointed as such by the State Election Commissioner under sub-s. (1) of s. 6 of the West Bengal State Election Commission Act, 1994 and includes an Assistant Panchayat Returning Officer. [West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, 2003, s. 2(18)]...
Temporal termini
Temporal termini, 'Is Art. 329(b) a blanket ban on all manner of question which may have impact on ultimate result of the election, arising between two temporal termini viz:-The notification by president calling for the election and the declaration of result by the returning officer?' [Mohinder Singh v. Election Commissioner, AIR 1978 SC 851 (861), para 17]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Persona designata
Persona designata, a persona designata, is 'a person who is pointed out or described as an individual, as opposed to a person ascertained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character.' (See Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 4th Edn., p. 253). In the words of Schwabe, C.J. In Parthasarathi Naidu v. Koteswara Rao, ILR 47 Mad 369: (AIR 1924 Mad 561) (FB), personae designate are 'persons selected to act in their private capacity and not in their capacity as Judges', Central Talkies v. Dwarka Prasad, AIR 1961 SC 606 (609): (1961) 3 SCR 495; see also Mukri Gopalan v. Cheppilat, (1995) 5 SCC 5: AIR 1995 SC 2272.Persona designata, connotes person pointed out by name or other personal description in contradis-tinction to one whose identity is to be ascertained by the office which he holds. So then, where a person is indicated in statute not by name but by an official designation a question will arise whether the intention was to single him out as a persona designata, Ram Chandra ...
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