Application to Municipal Election of Enactments relating to Application of part of Act to Scotland. Alterations for application of Part II. to Scotland Application of part of Act to Ireland. Alterations for application of Part II. to Ireland PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. THE BALLOT ACT, 1872. 35 & 36 VICT. CAP. 33. An Act to amend the Law relating to Procedure at [18th July, 1872.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to procedure at parliamentary and municipal elections: Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: PART I. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. Procedure at Elections. Nomination of candidates mentary elections. 1. A candidate for election to serve in parliament for a county or borough shall be nominated in writing. The for parliawriting shall be subscribed by two registered electors of such county or borough as proposer and seconder, and by eight other registered electors of the same county or borough as assenting to the nomination, and shall be delivered during the time appointed for the election to B the returning officer by the candidate himself, or his proposer or seconder (a). If at the expiration of one hour after the time appointed for the election no more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the returning officer shall forthwith declare the candidates who may stand nominated to be elected, and return their names to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery; but if at the expiration of such hour more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the returning officer shall adjourn the election and shall take a poll in manner in this Act mentioned. A candidate may, during the time appointed for the election, but not afterwards, withdraw from his candidature by giving a notice to that effect, signed by him, to the returning officer (b): Provided, that the proposer of a candidate nominated in his absence out of the United Kingdom may withdraw such candidate by a written (a) The form of nomination paper is given in the first schedule to the Act, post, p. 68, and the appointment of the time for the election is regulated by the same schedule, clauses 1 and 2, post, pp. 39, 40. See sects. 14-30 of the first schedule, pp. 44-50, post, as to the manner of taking the poll at an election. (b) The notice of withdrawal of the candidate may be in the following form: To the ("sheriff," or other returning officer) of the of I, the undersigned of in the of of having been duly nominated, at the election now pending, as a proper person to serve as member for the in parliament, do hereby give you notice that I with draw my candidature for election. |