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| (1) If, after the adjournment of an election for a poll to be taken, a candidate nominated by a recognized political party or any other political party dies before the poll has commenced, the Commissioner shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, direct the secretary of any such party to nominate another candidate in place of the deceased candidate within three days of such direction. Such nomination shall be substantially in form A set out in the First Schedule to this Act. |
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| (2) The Commissioner shall, upon receipt of such nomination, forthwith publish a notice in the Gazette stating the fact of such death and that the poll shall be taken as specified in the notice under section 21 as if the name of the candidate nominated under subsection (1) were substituted in place of the deceased candidate in the ballot papers and in all other documents relating to the election. |
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| (3)The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply to and in relation to the death of a candidate nominated by an elector, and the poll shall be taken as specified in the notice under section 21, notwithstanding the death of such candidate- |
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