CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 98

THIRD SCHEDULE

PART I

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Provisions relating to the Stages of the Election of a Councillor Preceding the Poll.

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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