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Substituted by Act No.25 of 1995. Public notice of election. Presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination. [Act No. II of 1956] 57 may be prescribed and no candidate shall be deemed to be duly nominated unless all such declarations are delivered along with the nomination paper: 104[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 105[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