The Returning Officer, the Assistant Returning Officer, the Presiding Officer, the Polling Officer, any other Officer and any Police Officer designated for the time being to conduct a general election or bye-lection under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be on deputation to the State Election Commission for the period from the date of the notification for such election to the date of declaration of the result of such election and accordingly, such officers shall be subject to the control, supervision and command of the State Election Commission during that period.
44 Added by Act 13 of 1999.
CHAPTER IX CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
49. Appointment of dates for nominations, etc. — As soon as the notification calling upon the constituencies in a panchayat at any level to elect a member or members is issued, the State Election Commission shall, by notification in the Gazette, appoint -
(a) the last date for making nomination which shall be the seventh day after the date of publication of the first mentioned notification or, if that day is public holiday, the next succeeding day which is not a public holiday;
(b) the date for the scrutiny of nominations which shall be the day immediately following the last date for making nominations or, if that day is a public holiday, the next succeeding day which is not a public holiday;
(c) the last date for the withdrawal of candidatures, which shall be the second day after the date for the scrutiny of nominations or, if that day is a public holiday, the next succeeding day which is not a public holiday;
(d) the date or dates on which a poll shall, if necessary, be taken which or the first of which shall be a date not earlier than the twentieth day after the last date for the withdrawal of candidatures; and
(e) the date before which the election shall be completed.
50. Public notice of election. - On the issue of a notification, under section 49, the returning officer shall give public notice of the intended election in such form and manner, as may be prescribed, inviting nominations of candidates for such election and specifying the place at which the nomination papers are to be delivered.
51. Nomination of candidates for election. - Any person may be nominated as a candidate for election to fill a seat if he is qualified to be chosen to fill that seat under the provisions of the constitution and this Act;
45[Provided that a person nominated as a candidate to fill a seat in a constituency in a Panchayat shall not be nominated as a candidate for another constituency in the same Panchayat].
52. Presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination. -
(1) on or before the date appointed under clause (a) of section 49, 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 section 50, a nomination paper completed in the prescribed form and signed by the candidate and by an elector of the constituency as