THIRD SCHEDULE
PART I
98
(Sec. 18
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Provisions relating to the Stages of the Election of a Councillor Preceding the Poll.
1.
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Notice of Election
(1) on or before the day appointed for that purpose
by Part II of this Schedule a notice of election shall be
published in the form prescribed in Part IV of this Schedule.
(2) The notice of election shall be prepared and signed
by the returning officer and shall be published by him by
causing it to be exhibited in a prominent position at the
offices of the Council or such other places in the Municipality
as the returning officer may determine.
2.
Nomination of Candidates
(1) Every candidate for the office of councillor
must be nominated by two persons registered as electors for
the purpose of the election at which the person nominated is
a candidate as his proposer and seconder.
(2) The nomination of each candidate must be made on
separate nomination paper in the form prescribed in Part IV
of this Schedule, stating the.full name, place of residence
and description of the candidate and must be signed by the
proposer and seconder and by eight other such registered
electors as aforesaid as assenting to the namination.
nomination paper of a Chinese candidate shall state the full
name, place of residence and description of the candidate in
both English and Chinese.
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(3) No person shall at an election sign more than one
nomination paper and if he does so his signature shall be
operative only in the case of the paper which is first delivered.
(4) The returning officer shall provide nomination papers
and shall supply any such registered elector as aforesaid with
as many nomination papers as may be required and shall, at the