46. Section 39 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:-
| 39. Whenever the death occurs of a candidate for election for any electoral area between the adjournment of the election for the purposes of the poll and the commencement of the poll, the elections officer of that district in which the area is situated shall upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, expunge the name of that candidate from the nomination paper and shall publish a notice stating the fact of such death and that, notwithstanding such death, the nomination paper with the omission of the name of the deceased candidate is valid in respect of the other candidates in the order in which their names appear in that nomination paper and that a poll shall be taken as specified in the notice published under section 38 (1).". |
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