THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY

[PART II—SEC. 3(iii)l

LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT

PUBUCNOT1CE

New Delhi, the 10th July, 2002

FORM1

[See rule 3 of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Rules, 1974]

PUBIICNOTICE

ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT OF INDIA

O.N. 79(E).—Whereas a notification under Sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential

Elections Act, 1952, for the holding of an election to fill the office of Vice-President of India has been issued by the Election

Commission, 1, G.C. Malhotra, the Returning Officer for such election, do hereby give notice that :—

(i) nomination papers may be delivered by a candidate or any one of his proposers or seconders to the

undersigned at hi s office in Room No. 18, Ground Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi, or if he is unavoidably

absent to the Assistant Returning Officers, Shri P.D.T. Achary, Additional Secretary/Shri S.C. Rastogi, Joint

Secretary, Lok Sabha Secretariat, at the said office between 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. on any day (other than a

public holiday) not later than the Wednesday, the 24th July, 2002;

(ii) each nomination paper shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the entry relating to the candidate in the

electoral roll for the Parliamentary constituency in which the candidate is resgistcrcd as an elector;

(iii) every candidate shall deposit or cause to be deposited a sum of rupees fifteen thousand only. This amount

may be deposited in cash with the Returning Officer at the time of presentation of the nomination paper or

deposited earlier in the Reserve Bank of India or in a Government Treasury and in the latter case a receipt

showing that the said deposit of the sum has been so made is required to be enclosed with the nomination

paper;

(rv) forms of nomination papers may be obtained from the above said office at the time aforesaid;

(v) the nomination papers, other than those rejected under sub-section (4) of section 5B of the Act, will be taken

up for scrutiny at the said office in Room No. 18, Ground Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi on Thursday,

the 25th July, 2002 at 11 A.M.;

(vi) the notice of withdrawal or candidature may be delivered by a candidate, or any one of his proposers or

seconders who has been authorised in this behalf in writing by the candidate, to the undersigned at the

place specified in paragraph (i) above before 3 O'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, the 27th July, 2002;

(vii) in the event of the election being contested, the poll will be taken on Monday, the 12th August, 2002

between the hours of 10 A.M. and 5 P.M. at the place of polling fixed under the rules

G C M AT, HOTRA, Returning Officer for the Vice-Presidential Election and Secretary-General, Lok Sabha

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