LawgistThe Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act
13Definitions
1[13. Definitions.-- In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "candidate" means a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate at an election;
(b) "costs" means all costs, charges and expenses of, or incidental to, a trial of an election petition;
(c) "returned candidate" means a candidate whose name has been published under section 12 as duly elected.]
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1. Subs. by Act 20 of 1977, s. 2, for Part III.
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
