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Development Councils Elections Act (No. 20 of 1981) - Sect 10

Nomination period

10.
(1) Whenever an election of the members of a Development Council is due to be held in any year, the returning officer of that Development Council area shall publish a notice of his intention to hold such election. The notice shall specify the period (hereinafter referred to as the " nomination period ") during which nomination papers shall be received by the returning officer during normal office hours at his office, and the number of candidates required under section 13(1) to be set out on the nomination paper.
(2) The nomination period shall commence on the fourteenth day after the date of publication of the notice referred to in subsection (1) and expire at twelve noon on the twenty-first day after the date of publication of such notice.


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