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Article 45
 

Within three days of the publication of the Writ, the Commissioners shall cause a notice or notices to be published in the Gazette stating:


(a) the website and/or manner in which candidates may submit their nominations electronically; the place where, and date and time when, the Commissioners will be in attendance to receive nominations of candidates for election as Members of the House, and any objections to such nominations, such place being referred to in this Act as the Electoral Office. The time during which nominations of candidates for election may be made shall not be less than five days and shall not commence to run before six days from the date of the publication of the notice referred to in this article, and the time during which objections to such nominations may be made shall not extend beyond one day from the expiration of the time fixed for the receipt of nominations;


(b) the places where, and the days and hours when voting shall be held. Voting shall not take place before the expiration of three days from the date of the publication of the notice referred to in article 54(3);


(c) the place to which the ballot boxes shall be taken by the Assistant Commissioners after the close of voting, which shall also be the place where such boxes shall be kept until the counting of the votes;


(d) the place where, the date and time when the ballot boxes shall be opened and the counting of votes shall take place.


(e) whether the Commission has decided to use an Electronic Counting System:


Provided that a published decision to use an Electronic Counting System shall not operate so as to prevent the Commission, in its considered opinion, from rescinding or retracting at any time, its decision to use an Electronic Counting System to revert to the manual system as outlined in the Thirteenth Schedule.