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13-G. 1 [ In so far as provision with respect to any matter is not made by this Act, the State Election Commission ] by order, make provision concerning conduct of elections, that is to say - (a) issue of notifications for general elections ; (b) the appointment, powers and duties of Returning Officers, Assistant Returning Officers, Presiding Officer and Polling Officers and clerks ; (c) appointment of dates for nomination, scrutiny, withdrawal and polling ; (d) the manner of presentation and the form of nomination paper, the requirements for a valid nomination, scrutiny of nominations and withdrawal of candidature ; (e) appointment and duties of election agents, polling agents and counting agents ; (f) procedure at general elections including death of candidate before poll, procedure in contested and uncontested elections, 2 [ x x x ] (g) identification of votes ; (h) hours of polling ; (i) adjournment of polls and fresh poll ; (j) manner of voting at elections ; (k) scrutiny and counting of votes including recount of votes and procedure to be followed in case of equality of votes and declaration of results ; (l) the notification of the names of the members elected for the various wards of a municipality and the due constitution of the board ; (m) return or forfeiture of deposits ; (n) manner in which votes are to be given by the presiding officer, polling agents or any other person who being an elector for a ward is authorized or appointed for duty at a polling station at which he is not entitled to vote ; (o) the procedure to be followed in respect of the tender of vote by person representing himself to be an elector after another person has voted as such elector ; (p) the safe custody of ballot boxes, ballot papers and other election papers, the period for which such papers shall be preserved and the inspection and production of such papers, and (q) generally on all matters relating to conduct of elections.