(1) A person shall not be capable of being elected at an election unless he ¾
(a) duly nominates himself; and
(b) is qualified to be elected and is not disqualified from being elected as a member of the House for which the election is being held.
(2) Where ¾
(a) a day is fixed as the polling day for 2 or more elections; and
(b) at the hour of nomination there exist nominations of a person for 2 or more of those elections,
each of those nominations is invalid.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) where a person has nominated himself in relation to an election and the person withdraws that nomination under section 82 before the hour of nomination, the nomination of the person for the election shall be taken to have ceased to have effect at the time when the person withdraws that nomination.
(4) A person shall not nominate himself as a candidate in an election if, prior to and until the hour of nomination, he is, either by this Act or any other Act, disqualified from being elected at that election as, or from being, a member of the House for which the election is being held.
Penalty ¾ $200 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(5) A nomination made in contravention of subsection (4) is invalid.
[Section 77 inserted by No. 40 of 1987 s.42.]