“Candidate”, “Electoral right” defined
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Summary
For this Chapter, a candidate is any person formally nominated for an election. Electoral right means the choice to stand as a candidate, to withdraw from being a candidate, to vote, or to refrain from voting. These definitions determine who the Chapter's election offences and protections apply to.
Example
Priya is nominated as a candidate in her local municipal election but withdraws before the deadline. Under these definitions she is treated as a 'candidate' and her act of withdrawing is an 'electoral right' covered by the Chapter.
Bare Act
Enacted textFor the purposes of this Chapter:
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(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
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(b) “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.
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