(3) The Returning Officer or Returning Officers concerned shall give effect to a direction under this section as soon as practicable after being notified of it.
(4) If the subsector election, or polling or counting of votes at the subsector election, is directed to be postponed or adjourned under this section, the Electoral Affairs Commission shall specify a date for the holding of the subsector election, or the polling or counting, in place of the postponed subsector election or the adjourned polling or counting. The Electoral Affairs Commission shall give notice of that date in the Gazette. That date is to be not later than 14 days from the date on which the election, polling or counting of votes would have taken place but for the direction.
25. What is to happen if insufficient number of candidates is nominated for a subsector
(1) If—
- (a) after the close of nominations of candidates for a subsector ordinary election, no more candidates have been validly nominated than the number of members allocated to the subsector; or
- (b) after the close of nominations of candidates for a subsector by-election, no more candidates have been validly nominated than the number of members to be returned at the by-election,
the Returning Officer concerned shall, in accordance with the EAC Regulations, publicly declare the candidates for the subsector to be duly elected as members of the Election Committee representing the subsector.
(2) If, after the close of nominations of candidates for a subsector election, no candidate was validly nominated, the Returning Officer concerned shall, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that no candidate was validly nominated for the subsector election.
(3) If—
- (a) after the close of nominations of candidates for a subsector ordinary election, the number of candidates validly nominated was less than the number of members allocated to the subsector; or
- (b) after the close of nominations of candidates for a subsector by-election, the number of candidates validly nominated was less than the number of members to be returned at the by-election,
the Returning Officer concerned shall, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that the number of members of the Election Committee returned at the subsector election for the subsector is less than the number of members to be returned at the election.
26. Death or disqualification of a validly nominated candidate before declaration of election result
(1) If, on or after the date of a subsector election but before declaring the result of the subsector election, proof is given to the satisfaction of the Returning Officer concerned that a validly nominated candidate for the subsector election has died or is disqualified from being elected, the proceedings for the subsector election are to begin (if they have not begun) or to continue (if they have begun) as if the death or disqualification had not occurred.
(2) If—
- (a) after the counting of votes is finished, the candidate referred to in subsection (1) is found to be successful at the subsector election; and
- (b) there is no other candidate at the subsector election who can be returned under section 29(9) for the subsector in place of that candidate,
the Returning Officer concerned shall, in accordance with the EAC Regulations, declare that—
- (c) no candidate is returned at the subsector election; or
- (d) (where more than one member of the Election Committee are to be returned at the subsector election and there are other candidates returned at the subsector election) the number of members of the Election Committee returned at the subsector election for the subsector is less than the number of members to be returned at the election.
