Section 32. Nomination of candidates for election

32. Nomination of candidates for election.— Any person may be nominated as a candidate for election to fill a seat[5] * if he is qualified to be chosen to fill that seat under the provisions of the Constitution and this Act[[6]] *[[7]] [or under the provisions of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963), as the case may be]. Constitution and this Act[[6]] *[[7]] [or under the provisions of the Government of Union Territories 8 [33. Presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination.— (1) On or before the date appointed under clause (a) of section 30 each candidate shall, either in person or by his proposer, between the hours of eleven O'clock in the forenoon and three O'clock in the afternoon deliver to the returning officer at the place specified in this behalf in the notice issued under section 31 a nomination paper completed in the prescribed form and signed by the candidate and by an elector of the constituency as proposer: 9[Provided that a candidate not set up by a recognised political party, shall not be deemed to be duly nominated for election from a constituency unless the nomination paper is subscribed by ten proposers being electors of the constituency: Provided further that no nomination paper shall be delivered to the returning officer on a day which is a public holiday: Provided also that in the case a local authorities' constituency, graduates' constituency or teachers' constituency, the reference to "an elector of the constituency as proposer" shall be construed as a reference to ten per cent. of the electors of the constituency or ten such electors, whichever is less, as proposers.] 10[(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), for election to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim (deemed to be the Legislative Assembly of that State duly constituted under the Constitution), the nomination paper to be delivered to the returning officer shall be in such form and manner as may be prescribed: Provided that the said nomination paper shall be subscribed by the candidate as assenting to the nomination, and — (a) in the case of a seat reserved for Sikkimese of Bhutia-Lepcha origin, also by at least twenty electors of the constituency as proposers and twenty electors of the constituency as seconders; (b) in the case of a seat reserved for Sanghas, also by at least twenty electors of the constituency as proposers and at least twenty electors of the constituency as seconders; 1. Subs. by Act 47 of 1966, s. 27, for "the third day" (w.e.f. 14-12-1966). 2. Subs. by Act 21 of 1996, s. 5, for "twentieth day" (w.e.f. 1-8-1996).