section 40
The provided text ends abruptly at Section 33.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955Chapter II Chapter II
(1) On or before the date appointed under clause (a) of section 33 each candidate shall, either in person or by his proposer between the hours of eleven o‘clock in the forenoon and three o‘clock in the afternoon deliver to the Returning Officer at the place specified in this behalf in the notice issued under section 34 a nomination paper in Form 8 of Schedule A and subscribed by the candidate himself as assenting to the nomination and by the person referred to in sub-section (2) as proposer. (2) Any person whose name is registered in the #[ward] list and who is not subject to any disqualification mentioned in section 10 may subscribe as proposer as many nomination papers as there are vacancies to be filled but no more: Provided that if the name of a person is entered more than once in a #[ward] list or is included in two or more #[ward] lists of the same class, such person shall not be entitled to subscribe as proposer more than one nomination paper for each vacancy to be filled in that #[ward] or in not more than one of such #[wards] of the same class. (3) Every nomination paper delivered under sub-section (1) shall be accompanied by such declarations as may be prescribed and no candidate shall be deemed to be duly nominated unless all such declarations are delivered along with the nomination paper: [Provided that in a division where any seat is reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or as the case may be, backward class, a candidate shall not be deemed to be qualified to be chosen to that seat, unless his nomination paper contains a declaration by him specifying the particular caste or as the case may be the tribe or tribal community of which he is a member and the area in relation to which that caste is a Scheduled Caste or is a backward class or the tribe or tribal community is a Scheduled Tribe.] (4) Every nomination paper delivered under sub-section (1) shall be also accompanied by a declaration in writing specifying the particular symbol which the candidate has chosen for his first preference out of the list of symbols for the time being in force and also specifying two other symbols out of that list which he has chosen for his second and third preference respectively: Provided that the choice to be made by a candidate under this section shall be subject to such restrictions as the [State Election Commissioner] may think fit to impose in this behalf. (5) Any nomination paper which is not received before three o‘clock in the afternoon on the last date appointed under clause (a) of section 33 shall be rejected. (6) On the presentation of a nomination paper, the Returning Officer shall satisfy himself that the names and serial numbers of the candidate and his proposer as entered in the nomination paper are the same as those entered in the #[ward] list of the #[wards]: Provided that the Returning Officer may- (a) permit any clerical error in the nomination paper in regard to the said names or numbers to be corrected in order to bring them into conformity with the corresponding entries in the #[ward] list; and (b) where necessary, direct that any clerical or printing error in the said entries shall be overlooked. (7) If at the time of the presentation of the nomination paper the Returning Officer finds that the name of the candidate is not registered in the list of the #[ward] for which he is the Returning Officer, he shall for the puposes of sub-section (5) require the person presenting the nomination to produce either a copy of the #[ward] list of the #[ward] or #[wards] for which he is the Returning Officer, or he shall for the purposes of sub-section (6) require the person presenting the nomination paper to produce either a copy of the #[Ward] List in which the name of the candidate is included or a certified copy of the relevant entries in such list. (8) Nothing in this section shall prevent any candidate from being nominated by more than one nomination paper for election in the same #[ward]. [(9) A candidate may file nominations for more than one ward in the Municipal Corporation, but he/she shall withdraw his/her nominations to all wards except one ward of his/her choice, before the date and time fixed for withdrawal of candidature, failing which, all his/her nominations shall become invalid and shall not be allowed to contest from any ward.]
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