(1) On or before the date appointed under rule 10 for making nominations, each candidate shall either in person or by his proposer, between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., deliver to the Returning officer at the place specified in this behalf in the public notice referred under rule 9, a nomination paper duly completed in Form-2 along with his recent passport size photograph, nomination papers signed by the candidate and six electors of the ward as proposers.
Provided that, a candidate setup by a recognized political party, shall be deemed to be duly nominated for election from a ward of the nomination paper is subscribed by one proposer being elector of the ward:
Provided further that, no nomination paper shall be delivered to the Returning officer on a day which is public holiday.
(2) In a ward wherein,-
(a) the seat is reserved for the backward classes, scheduled castes or 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 class, caste or tribe of which he is a member and said class, caste or tribe is a backward class, scheduled caste, or scheduled tribe; and
(b) the seat is reserved for women, the nomination paper shall contain a declaration that the candidate is a woman.
(3) On the presentation of a 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 those 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 clerical, technical or printing error in regard to the electoral roll number of any such person in the electoral roll or nomination paper shall affect the full operation of the electoral roll or nomination paper with respect to such person or place in any case where the description in regard to the name of the person or place is such as to be 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.
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(4) Nothing in this rule shall prevent any candidate from being nominated by more than one nomination paper:
provided that such nominations shall not exceed four.
(5) A candidate shall not deemed to be duly nominated for election from any ward unless, he deposits or causes to be deposited before the nomination paper is delivered to the Returning officer, a sum of five thousand rupees or where the candidate is a member of a backward class or a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe or a woman, a sum of two thousand and five hundred rupees:
Provided that, where a candidate has been nominated by more than one nomination paper for election in the same ward, not more than one deposit shall be required of them under this sub-rule.
(6) Any sum required to be deposited under sub-rule (5) shall not deemed to have been deposited in that sub-rule unless, at the time of delivery of nomination paper under sub-rule (1) the candidate has either deposited or caused to be deposited that sum with the Returning officer in cash or enclosed with nomination paper a receipt showing that the said sum has been deposited by him or in his behalf to the Government treasury.