Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Returning Officer shall, on receiving the nomination paper under sub-section (1) of section 36, inform, the person or persons delivering the same, of the date, time and place fixed for the scrutiny of nominations and shall enter on the nomination paper its serial number, and shall sign thereon a certificate stating the date on, 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 similar to those contained in the nomination paper, both of the candidate and of the person who has subscribed the nomination paper as proposer.