The PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1952

CONDUCT OF PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Section 5D: Notice of nominations and the time and place for their scrutiny.

On the presentation of a nomination paper, the Returning Officer shall—

(a) sign thereon a certificate stating the date and time of presentation of the nomination paper and enter thereon its serial number;

(b) inform the person or persons presenting the nomination paper of the date, time and place fixed for the scrutiny of nominations; and

(c) cause to be affixed in some conspicuous place in his office a copy of the nomination paper as certified and numbered under clause (a).