(1) Voters on election duty who wish to vote by post at an election shall send an application in Form-15 to the Returning officer so as to reach him at least seven days or shorter period as the Returning officer may allow before the date of a poll and if the Returning officer is satisfied that the applicant is on election duty in any place outside the ward in which he is a voter, the officer shall issue a postal ballot paper of such concerned ward.
(2) Where such voter being a presiding officer, a polling officer or other public servant on election duty in a polling station other than the one in which he is entitled to vote wishes to vote in the polling station in which he is on election duty, he shall send an application in Form-13 to the Returning officer so as to reach at least four days or such shorter period as the Returning officer may allow before the day of poll and if the Returning officer is satisfied that the applicant is a public servant and voter on election duty, he shall,-
(a) issue the applicant an Election Duty Certificate (EDC) in Form-14;
(b) mark Election Duty Certificate against his / her name in the marked copy of the electoral roll to indicate that an Election Duty Certificate has been issued to him/her; and
(c) ensure that he/she is not allowed to vote at the polling station where he/she would otherwise have been entitled to vote.
(3) The provisions of rule 43 shall not apply to any person who produces at the polling station an Election Duty Certificate in Form-14 and asks for the issue of a ballot paper, although the polling station is different from the one where he is entitled to vote. On production of such certificate the presiding officer shall,-
(a) obtain thereon the signature of the person producing it;
(b) have the person’s name and electoral roll number as mentioned in the certificate entered at the end of the marked copy of the electoral roll; and
(c) issue to him a ballot paper and permit him to vote in the same manner as for as elector entitled to vote in the polling station.