Presidential Elections Act, 1937
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Attendance of candidates at the ruling upon nominations. |
15.—(1) Every candidate shall attend, either in person or by an authorised representative, during the whole of the ruling upon nominations and shall furnish (either personally or by his authorised representative) all such information relevant to himself or any nomination paper purporting to nominate him as shall be within his knowledge and shall be reasonably required of him by the presidential returning officer or the judicial assessor. | |
(2) The judicial assessor may, if on the application of the presidential returning officer he so thinks proper, disallow the nomination of a candidate on the ground that such candidate has not attended at the ruling upon nominations as required by this section or on the ground that such candidate or his authorised representative has failed to furnish to the presidential returning officer or to the judicial assessor information required of him under this section by the presidential returning officer or the judicial assessor, as the case may be. | ||
(3) In this section the expression “authorised representative” means a person authorised by a candidate in writing in the form set out in the Second Schedule to this Act to represent such candidate at the ruling upon nominations. |