Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952
Bare Act · 1952
An Act to regulate certain matters relating to or connected with elections to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.
- Act number
- 31 of 1952
- Enacted
- 14 March 1952
- Contents
- 30 sections · 4 chapters
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Contents
Part I — Preliminary
Part II — Conduct Of Presidential And Vice-Presidential Elections
- Section 3 – Returning Officer and his assistants
- Section 4 – Appointment of dates for nominations, etc
- Section 5 – Public notice of election
- Section 5A – Nomination of candidates (preview)
- Section 5B – Presentation of nomination papers and requirements for a valid nomination (preview)
- Section 5C – Deposit (preview)
- Section 5D – Notice of nominations and the time and place for their scrutiny (preview)
- Section 5E – Scrutiny of nominations (preview)
- Section 6 – Withdrawal of candidature (preview)
- Section 7 – Death of candidate before poll (preview)
- Section 8 – Procedure in contested and uncontested elections (preview)
- Section 9 – Manner of voting at elections (preview)
- Section 10 – Counting of votes (preview)
- Section 11 – Declaration of results (preview)
- Section 12 – Report of the result (preview)
Part III — Disputes Regarding Elections
- Section 13 – Definitions (preview)
- Section 14 – Authority to try election petitions (preview)
- Section 14A – Presentation of petition (preview)
- Section 15 – Form of petitions, etc., and procedure (preview)
- Section 16 – Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner (preview)
- Section 17 – Orders of the Supreme Court (preview)
- Section 18 – Grounds for declaring the election of a returned candidate to be void (preview)
- Section 19 – Grounds for which a candidate other than the returned candidate may he declared to have been elected (preview)
- Section 20 – Transmission of orders to the Central Government and its publication (preview)