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Paragraph 1 Timetable

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(1)

The proceedings at an Assembly election shall be conducted in accordance with the following Table—

ProceedingTime
Publication of notice of election.Not later than the twenty-fifth day before the day of election.
Delivery of nomination papers.

Between—

  1. (a)

    the hours of 10 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon after the date of publication of notice of election but before the nineteenth day before the day of election, and

  2. (b)

    the hours of 10 in the morning and noon onthe nineteenth day before the day of election.

The making of objections to nomination papers.

During the hours allowed for delivery of nomination papers on the last day for their delivery and the hour following, but—

  1. (a)

    no objection may be made in the afternoon of that last day except to a nomination paper delivered within 24 hours of the last time for its delivery and, in the case of a nomination paper so delivered, no objection may be so made to the sufficiency or nature of the particulars of a candidate unless made at or immediately after the time of the delivery of the nomination paper, and

  2. (b)

    the foregoing provisions do not apply to objections made under paragraph 18(2).

Delivery of notices of withdrawal of candidature.Not later than noon on the seventeenth day before the day of election.
Publication of statement of persons nominated.Not later than noon on the sixteenth day before the day of election.
Polling.Between the hours of 7 in the morning and 10 at night on the day of election.
(2)

In the Table—

(a)

“nomination papers”, in the case of a regional election, refers to individual or party nomination papers, and

(b)

in the case of making an objection to a party nomination paper, making of an objection to a nomination paper refers to the making of an objection—

(i)

to such a paper, or

(ii)

to the nomination of any party list candidate or candidates in respect of such a paper.