ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (c) if no appeal in terms of paragraph (b) is lodged within four days after the political party received notice of the decision, the right of appeal shall lapse and the decision shall be final; and (d) if an appeal in terms of paragraph (b) is lodged, the judge concerned may direct that any further proceedings under this section shall be suspended, if necessary, pending determination of the appeal. (15) Any person who— (a) on a nomination paper lodged in terms of this section, forges any signature purporting to be that of a candidate or a designated office-bearer of a political party; or (b) lodges a nomination paper knowing that any signature on it purporting to be that of a candidate or a designated office-bearer of a political party is forged; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level fourteen or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Section inserted by s. 19 of Act No. 6 of 2014] 45F Publication and printing of party lists after nomination (1) Upon completion of all formalities in connection with the nomination of the party-list candidates in an electoral province under section 45E, the nomination officer concerned shall make at least three copies of the party-lists (containing the photographs of the party-list candidates) authenticated by his or her signature, of which the nomination officer must— (a) enclose two sets of copies in separate packets, sealed with his or her own seal and with the seals of those designated office-bearers who may wish to affix their seals, and forthwith transmit — (i) one set of copies to the Chief Elections Officer; and (ii) one set of copies to the provincial centre; and (b) affix one copy on the outside of the nomination court so that it is visible to the public. (2) The provincial elections officer shall, immediately upon receiving copies of the partylists under subsection (1)(a)(ii), make sufficient copies thereof for distribution to every ward centre within the province before the nomination of candidates for election as councillors. (3) No later than seven days after receiving the last party list from every electoral province the Chief Elections Officer shall notify in the Gazette— (a) in relation to each electoral province, the names of the political parties which have submitted party lists; and (b) the names of the party-list candidates duly nominated by each party for each electoral province in the order in which such names appear on the appropriate party-list of candidates. (4) The provincial centre, after receiving the party lists submitted in respect of the electoral province concerned, shall forthwith arrange for the party-lists to be printed— (a) in such numbers as are sufficient for at least two copies to be distributed before the polling day in the election concerned (or the first polling day, as the case may be) to every constituency centre in the electoral province to which the party-lists relate; and (b) in such a manner that— (i) the names, abbreviations and distinctive symbols of all political parties contesting for party-list seats in the electoral province in question appear in alphabetical order in a single folio; and (ii) the names of the party-list candidates appear, together with a photograph of each candidate, under the name of the political party by which they were nominated, clearly distinguishing between those party-list candidates nominated for the Senate, the National Assembly and the provincial council. [Section inserted by s. 19 of Act No. 6 of 2014] 65