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Notice of nominations and the time and place for their security. - The returning officer shall, on receiving the nomination paper under sub-section (1) of section 52, inform the person or persons delivering the same, of the date, time and place fixed for the scrutiny of nominations sand shall enter on the nomination paper its serial number, and shall sign thereon a certificate stating the date on which and the hour at which the nomination paper has been delivered to him; and shall, as soon as may be thereafter, cause to be affixed in some conspicuous place in his office a notice of the nomination containing descriptions both of the candidate and of the proposer as contained in the nomination paper.