29. Section 26 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:-
| 26. Whenever a general election of the members of a local authority is due to be held in any year, the elections officer of he district in which the electoral area of such authority is situated shall publish a notice of his intention to hold such election. The notice shall specify the period (herein- after referred to as the " nomination period ") during which nomination papers shall be received by the returning officer during office hours at his office. Such nomination period shall commence on the day after the date of publication of the notice and shall expire at twelve noon on the twenty-first day after the date of the publication of the notice. The notice shall also specify the date, time and place at which the approved symbols, and, where there is more than one independent group, a distinguishing number, will be allotted. |
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