THE CYPRUS GAZETTE, 1925.

THE CYPRUS GAZETTE (EXTRAORDINARY, No. 2), 1st MAY, 1925. 255
15.—(1) The Governor shall from time to time appoint R^F^^^^^^^officers
some fit and proper person to be the Returning Officer
for each electoral district and may at any time cancel such
appointment.
(2) Each Returning Officer may for each election appoint
such number of Presiding Officers as he may think fit,
and may at any time cancel any such appointment.
(3) Every appointment or cancellation of an appointment
shall be notified by publication in The Cyprus Gazette.
16. For the purpose of every general election of Members Writs of election,
of the Council, and for the purpose of the election
members to supply vacancies caused by death, resignation,
or otherwise, the Governor.shallissiie writs of election under
the Public Seal of the Colony, addressed to the returning
officers of the respective electoral districts for which
members are to be returned. Every such writ shall specify
the day and place of election, and the day on which it is
returnable to the Governor ; upon receipt of such writ
the returning officer shall proceed to hold the election
thereby directed ; and after such election he shall certify
the return of the member elected by endorsement on the
writ, and shall return the writ so endorsed to the Governor
within the time for that purpose specified therein. He
shall also, as soon as possible, give public notice of the
candidate elected, and in the case of a contested election
of the number ot votes given for each candidate whether
elected or not.
17. Where an equality of votes is found to exist between Procedure on an
anv candidates, and the addition of a vote would entitle equality of votes.
any of the candidates to be declared elected, the determination
of the candidate to whom such one additional vote
shall be deemed to have been given shall be made by lot
in the presence of the returning officer in such manner as
lie shall determine.
18. A petition complaining of an undue return or undue
election of a member of the Council (in this Order called
an " election petition ") may, at any time within fifteen
days of the publication of the result of such election in
the Gazette, be presented to the Supreme Court of the
Colony by any one or more of the following persons, that
is to say : —
(1) Some person who voted or had a right to vote
at the election to which the petition relates ; or
(2) Some person who claims to have had a right to
be returned or elected at such election ; or
(3) Some person who alleges himself to have been
a candidate at such election.
19.—(1) Every election petition shall be tried by a Judge
of the Supreme Court of the Colony in open Court.
(2) At the conclusion of the trial, the Judge shall determine
whether the Member of the Council whose return or
election' is complained of, or any other and what person
was duly returned or elected, or whether the election was
void, and shall certify such determination to the Governor,
and upon such certificate being given, such determination
shall be final; and the return shall be confirmed or altered,
or a new election shall be held, as the case may require,
in accordance with such certificate.
(3) The Governor shall declare, by notification in the
Gazette, whether the candidate whose return or election
is questioned, or any or what other person, is duly returned
or elected, or whether the election is void.
Presentation of
election petition.
Trial of election
petition.
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