State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

46- In so far as provision with respect to any matter is not made by this Act, [the State Commission]3 may, by order, provide for matters concerning conduct of elections to the offices of Nagar Pramukh and Upa Nagar Pramukh and to the seats of [XXX]1 Sabhasads, that is to say- -- (a) [XXX]4 (b) the appointment, powers and duties of Nirvachan Adhikaris (Returning Officers), Sahayak Nirvachan Adhikaris (Assistant Returning Officers), Nirvachan Adhykshas (Presiding Officers) and Matdan Adhikaris (Polling Officers) and clerks; (c) appointment of dates for nomination, scrutiny, withdrawal and polling; (d) the manner of presentation and the requirements for a valid nomination, scrutiny of nominations and withdrawal of candidatures; (e) appointment and duties of election agents, polling agents and counting agents; (f) procedure at general elections including death of candidate before poll, procedure in contested and uncontested elections, [xxx]7; (g) identification of voters; (h) hours of polling; (i) adjournment of poll and fresh poll ; (j) manner of voting at elections; (k) scrutiny and counting of votes including recount of votes and procedure to be followed in case of equality of votes and declaration of results-; (l) the notification of the names of the persons elected as Sabhasads, [xxx]1 Nagar Pramukh and Upa Nagar Pramukh ; (m) refund and forfeiture of deposits; (n) manner in which votes are to be given by Nirvachan Adhyaksha (Presiding Officer), polling agent or any other person who being an elector for a ward is appointed for duty at a polling station at which he is not entitled to vote; (o) the procedure to be followed in respect of the tender of vote by person representing himself to be an elector after another person has voted as such elector; (p) the safe custody of ballot boxes, ballot papers and other election papers, the period for which such papers shall be preserved and the inspection and production of such papers; (q) [xxx]6 (r) issue of copies of election papers and fixing of charges for such copies; (s) maintaining of list of Sabhasads [xxx]2 for the purposes of elections of [xxx]2 [[xxx]8 the Upa Nagar Pramukh]4 ; and (t) generally on all matters relating to conduct of elections.