(1) On or before the date appointed under clause (a) of rule 29, each candidate shall, either in person or by his proposer, between the hours of eleven o’ clock in the forenoon and three o’clock in the afternoon deliver to the Returning officer at the place specified in this behalf in the notice issued under rule 30, a nomination paper completed in Form-5 clearly specifying the ward from which he proposes to contest and signed by the candidate himself as assenting to the nomination and by an elector of the ward as proposer :
Provided that no nomination paper shall be delivered to the Returning Officer on a day which is a public holiday.
(2) In a ward, where any seat is reserved for woman, a candidate shall not be deemed to be qualified to be chosen to fill that seat unless the nomination paper contains a declaration by her that she is a woman.
(3) In a ward where any seat is reserved for the Scheduled Castes or for the Scheduled Tribes a candidate shall not be deemed to be qualified to be chosen to fill that seat unless his nomination paper contains a declaration by him specifying the particular caste or tribes of which he is a member.
(4) Any nomination paper which is not received before three o’ clock in the afternoon on the last date appointed under clause (a) of rule 29 shall be rejected.
(5) On the presentation of nomination paper, the Returning Officer shall satisfy himself that the names and electoral roll numbers of the candidate and his proposer as entered in the nomination paper are the same as entered in the electoral roll:
Provided that no misnomer or inaccurate description or clerical, technical or printing error in regard to the name of the candidate or his proposer or any other person, or in regard to any place, mentioned in the electoral roll or the nomination paper and no SERIES - I (2015) THE D.&N.H. EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE (Serial No. 50) Page -12 clerical, technical or printing error in regard to the electoral numbers of any such person in the electoral roll or the nomination paper, shall affect the full operation of the electoral roll or the nomination paper with respect to such person or place in any case where the descript in regard to the name of the person or place is such as to be commonly understood, and the Returning Officer shall permit any such misnomer or inaccurate description or clerical, technical or printing error to be corrected and where necessary direct that any such misnomer, inaccurate description clerical, technical or printing error in the electoral roll or in the nomination paper shall be overlooked.
(6) Where the candidate is an elector of a different ward, a copy of the electoral roll of that ward or the relevant part thereof or a certified copy of the relevant entries in such roll shall be produced before the Returning Officer at the time of scrutiny.
(7) Nothing in these rules shall prevent any candidate from being nominated by more than one nomination paper :
Provided that not more than four nomination papers shall be presented by or on behalf of any candidate or accepted by the Returning Officer, for election in the same ward.