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Article 49
 

(1) The Commission shall as near as practically possible to the day of the poll print such number of ballot papers as may be necessary for the poll in such form and on such material as may be provided for in this Act and not later than two days prior to the commencement of voting, the Commission shall cause to be published in the Government Gazette the number of ballot papers printed for each electoral division and the number to be distributed to each individual polling booth.

(2) The Commission shall ensure as far as is practically possible that ballot papers are made of such security paper and carry such markings as to ensure that they may not be duplicated.

(3) The ballot-paper of each voter shall consist of a paper in the form set out in the Eighth Schedule of this Act, containing a list of candidates described by the name (including any nickname), address and profession or occupation as given in their respective nomination paper and as approved by the Electoral Commissioners.

(4) Candidates shall be arranged by political party and, within each party group alphabetically in the order of their name. If there are two or more candidates of one party with the same surname, they will be arranged in order of their other name or names.

(5) Every political party contesting the election shall provide the Commission with the names of the candidates contesting the election in its own interest. Such list shall be conclusive evidence as to whether a particular candidate belongs to that political party.

(6) If supplied by the party to which he belongs, there shall be printed on the ballot paper opposite the name of each candidate belonging to that party any badge or device, approved by the Electoral Commission, indicating the political party, if any, to which the candidate belongs, or otherwise calculated to assist the identification of the candidate by the voter.

(7) Ballot-papers shall show different colours for parties contesting all electoral divisions and having not less than four candidates in each division. Such colours shall be assigned by the Electoral Commission

Provided that any party may decline the colour so assigned to it, and in any such case the ballot paper shall not shown any special colour for that party.

(8) Parties will be placed on the ballot paper in alphabetical order.