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The Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act

An Act to regulate certain matters relating to or connected with elections to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.
1952
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • CONDUCT OF PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

  • 3
     Returning Officer and his assistants
  • 4
     Appointment of dates for nominations, etc
  • 5
     Public notice of election
  • 5A
     Nomination of candidates
  • 5B
     Presentation of nomination papers and requirements for a valid nomination
  • 5C
     Deposit
  • 5D
     Notice of nominations and the time and place for their scrutiny
  • 5E
     Scrutiny of nominations
  • 6
     Withdrawal of candidature
  • 7
     Death of candidate before poll
  • 8
     Procedure in contested and uncontested elections
  • 9
     Manner of voting at elections
  • 10
     Counting of votes
  • 11
     Declaration of results
  • 12
     Report of the result

  • DISPUTES REGARDING ELECTIONS

  • 13
     Definitions
  • 14
     Authority to try election petitions
  • 14A
     Presentation of petition
  • 15
     Form of petitions, etc., and procedure
  • 16
     Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner
  • 17
     Orders of the Supreme Court
  • 18
     Grounds for declaring the election of a returned candidate to be void
  • 19
     Grounds for which a candidate other than the returned candidate may he declared to have been elected
  • 20
     Transmission of orders to the Central Government and its publicatio

  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 20A
     Return or forfeiture of candidate‟s deposit
  • 21
     Power to make rules
  • 22
     Maintenance of secrecy of voting
  • 23
     Jurisdiction of civil courts barre