(1) A candidate shall not be deemed to be duly nominated for Deposits.
election from a constituency unless he deposits or causes to be deposited a sum of one hundred rupees or, where the candidate is a member of the Scheduled Caste or the Scheduled Tribe, a sum of fifty rupees:
Provided that where a candidate has been nominated by more than one nomination paper for election in the same constituency, not more than one deposit shall be required of him under this sub-section.
(2) Any sum required to be deposited under sub-section (1) shall not be deemed to have been deposited under that sub-section unless, at the time of delivery of the nomination paper under sub-section (1), the candidate has either deposited or caused to be deposited that sum with the Municipal Returning Officer in cash or enclosed with the nomination paper a receipt showing that the said sum has been deposited by him or on his behalf in the Reserve Bank of India or in a Government Treasury.
327 The West Bengal Municipal Elections Act, 194.
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Notice of nominations and the time and place for their scrutiny.
Scrutiny of nomination.
42. The Municipal Returning Officer shall; on receiving the nomination paper under sub-section (I) of section 40, inform the person or persons delivering the same of the date, time and place fixed for the scrutiny of nomination and shall enter on the nomination paper its serial number, and shall sign thereon a certificate stating the date on which and the hour at which the nomination paper has been delivered to him, and shall, as soon as may be thereafter, cause to be affixed in some conspicuous place in his office a notice of the nomination containing descriptions similar to those contained in the nomination paper, both of the candidate and of the proposer.