(1) On or before the date appointed under clause (a) of sub-rule (l) of Rule 10 each candidate shall send by registered post with acknowledgement due or deliver in person to the Retur.iing Officer a nomination paper in Form HI.
(2) The nomination paper shall be subscribed by two electors one as the proposer and the other as the seconder and assented by the candidate proposed and seconded by them:
Provided that, on elector shall subscribe as proposer or seconder mor e nomination papers than there are seats to be filled up;
Provided further that, if an elector subscribes to more number of nomination papers than there are seats to be filled up, the nomination papers first received by the Returning Officer equal to the number of seats to be filled up shall. if they are otherwise in order. be held to be valid, and if all such nominationpapers subscribed by the same elector in excess n umber of seats to be filled up are received simultaneously, all such nomination papers shall held to be invalid.
(3) On receipt ef each nomination paper the Returning Officer shall endorse ther eon the date and the hour of receipt.