Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Section 104A inserted by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. 24A.Proviso added by Act 8 of 1995, w.e.f. 5-8-1995. *** Section 1A inserted by Seventh Amendment Act 37 of 2005, w.e.f 24-08-2005 (3) Where the candidate is a person who, having held any office referred to in section 86 has been dismissed or removed and a period of five years has not elapsed since the dismissal or removal, such person shall not be deemed to be duly nominated as a candidate unless his nomination paper is accompanied by a certificate issued in the prescribed manner by the State Election Commission to the effect that he has not been dismissed or removed for corruption or disloyalty. (4) On the presentation of a nomination paper, the Returning Officer shall satisfy himself that the names and electoral roll numbers of the candidate and his proposer as entered in the nomination paper are the same as those entered in the electoral roll: Provided that no misnomer or inaccurate description or clerical, technical or printing error is regarded to the name of the candidate or his proposer or any other person or in regard to any place, mentioned in the electoral roll or the nomination paper and no clerical, technical or printing error in regard to the electoral roll numbers of any such person in the electoral roll or the nomination paper, shall affect the full operation of the electoral roll or the nomination paper with respect to such person or place in any case where the description in regard to the name of the person or place is such as to be commonly understood: and the Returning Officer shall permit any such misnomer or inaccurate description or clerical, technical or printing error to be corrected and were necessary, direct that any such misnomer, inaccurate description, clerical, technical or printing error in the electoral roll or in the nomination paper shall be overlooked. (5) Nothing in this section shall prevent any candidate from being nominated by more than one nomination paper: Provided that not more than three nomination papers shall be presented by or on behalf of any candidate or accepted by the Returning Officer.