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Article 51
 

Immediately after sub-article (2) of article 52 of the Electoral (Polling) Ordinance, included in the Fourteenth Schedule to the General Elections Act there shall be added the following new sub-article:


"(3) Notwithstanding but without prejudice to the provisions of sub-articles (1) and (2) where the commissioners, after examining the return of the election expenses of an elected candidate in terms of article 50, determine that an elected candidate has prima facie given information which is false in the return of election expenses or that an elected candidate has incurred election expenses in an amount exceeding the amount permissible by law, the Electoral Commission shall forthwith file an application in the Constitutional Court asking that Court to determine the question as to whether the seat of the said elected candidate has become vacant in terms of paragraph (ft) of sub-article (1) of article 55 of the Constitution. The Constitutional Court shall hear and determine such case with urgency.".