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Section 21: Electors under preventive detention

The Conduct Of Election Rules,1961Central Rules · 1951

(1) The appropriate Government shall, within fifteen days of the calling of an election, ascertain and intimate to the returning officer the names of the electors, if any, subjected to preventive detention together with their addresses and electoral roll numbers and the particulars about their places of detention.

(2) Any elector subjected to preventive detention may, within fifteen days of the calling of an election, send an intimation to the returning officer that he wishes to vote by post, specifying his name, address, electoral roll number and place of detention.

(3) The returning officer shall issue a postal ballot paper to every elector subjected to preventive detention whose name has been intimated to him under sub-rule (1) or under sub-rule (2).

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ActThe Conduct Of Election Rules,1961
Section21
Marginal noteElectors under preventive detention
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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