1) The Returning Officer shall examine the nomination papers and shall decide all objections and may, either on such objection or on his own motion, after such summary enquiry, if any as he thinks necessary, refuse any nomination for any of the following reasons, namelya) that the candidate or his proposer or his seconder is not an elector;
b) that there has been any failure to comply with the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder relating to elections to the Council;
c) that the signature of the candidate or his proposer or his seconder is not genuine or has been obtained by fraud;
2) Where an elector has subscribed as proposer or seconder a larger number of nomination papers than there are vacancies to be filled, only such of the papers so subscribed as have been first received upto the number of vacancies to be filled shall, subject to the provisions of sub-rule (1) be deemed to be valid; and the rest shall, be deemed to be invalid and rejected.