Student Hand Book
(iii) Objection could be made to the election officer on a candidate's nomination paper on one of the following or all of them: (a) Candidate not having qualified under paragraph 5 (b) Proposer or Seconder not being a registered undergraduate of the faculty. (c) Proposer or Seconder not having signed the nomination paper. (d) Nomination paper not being in accordance with the By-Law. (e) Candidate under the suspension order of the faculty or the University . (iv) Election officer will not accept any objection made if not made within half an hour of the time fixed for acceptance of nominating papers. (v)
A person objecting against a candidate's nomination should be made in writing with the signature and the reason for objection should be clearly made.
(vi) If the election officer feels that action should be taken with regard to the objections made against a candidates nomination paper, he should make an endorsement to that effect. (vii) Validity status of the objection should be indicated to the candidate without delay. If his decision on the validity is accepted it will be the final decision of the election officer. 11 (i)
In an election for office bearers, if not more than one candidate is nominated the election officer shall announce that particular candidate has been duly elected.
(ii)
In an election for committee members, if not more than the required number under paragraph 6 have been nominated the election officer shall announce that particular number of candidates have been duly elected.
(iii) In any Faculty student union, if for a certain office bearers post no nomination have been received or all the nominations received have been rejected or for committee members posts, nominations received one less than the number specified under paragraph 6 (i), the election officer shall bring this matter to the attention of the Chief Executive officer and the Chief Executive officer shall fix a date , time and place to receive fresh nominations. 12
If for an election of office bearer's two or more valid nominations have been received and for committee members election more than the required number of 102