ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (a) (b) to the Presidential or National Assembly constituency elections, either of the forms prescribed in the Ninth Schedule; or any other election, the prescribed nomination form; [Definition inserted by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2014] “observer” means a person accredited as an observer in terms of Part IXB; [Definition amended by s. 16 of Act No. 17 of 2007 and s. 3 of Act No. 3 of 2012] “office hours”, in relation to— (a) an office that is normally open to members of the public, means the hours on a week-day during which that office is open to members of the public; (b) an office that is not normally open to members of the public, means the hours on a week-day during which business is conducted in that office; [Definition substituted by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2014] “ordinary polling station” … [Definition repealed by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2014] “party list”, “party-list candidate” and “party-list seat” bear the meanings given to those phrases in section 45B; [Definition inserted by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2016] “payment” includes any pecuniary or other reward; “pecuniary reward” includes any office, place or employment, any valuable security or other equivalent for money and any valuable consideration; “personal expenses”, in relation to a candidate at an election, means the reasonable travelling expenses of that candidate and of his or her chief election agent, if any, and the reasonable expenses of their living at hotels or elsewhere for the purposes of and in relation to that election; “political party” means any political organisation; “polling day”, in relation to— (a) an election to the office of President, means the day or days fixed in terms of section 38(1)(a)(ii) or (iii), as the case may be, for the taking of a poll in that election; (b) the election of a member of the National Assembly, other than a party-list candidate, means the day or days fixed in terms of section 38(1)(b)(ii) for the taking of a poll in that election; (c) the election of a Senator Chief, means the day fixed in terms of section 38(3)(b) for the meeting of electoral colleges in terms of Part X; (d) the election of a Senator to represent persons with disabilities, means the day fixed in terms of the Seventh Schedule for the meeting of Electoral College for Persons with a Disability; (e) the election of a councillor, means a day fixed in terms of section 38(1)(c)(ii) or 121A(2)(c), as the case may be, for the taking of a poll in that election; [Definition substituted by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2014] “polling officer” means any person appointed in terms of subsection (2) of section fifty-two to be a polling officer; “polling station” means a polling station referred to in subsection (1) of section fifty-one; “polling-station return” means a return in the prescribed form recording the result of a counting of the votes at a polling station in terms of section sixty-four; “postal vote” means a vote cast by a postal voter; [Definition inserted by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2014] “postal voter” means a person who votes by post in terms of Part XV; [Definition inserted by s. 5 of Act No. 6 of 2014] 22