ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ PART XII NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION AS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT 46 Nomination of candidates (1) A candidate for election as a constituency member of the National Assembly shall be nominated by means of a separate nomination paper in the prescribed form which— (a) shall be signed by not fewer than five persons who are registered on the voters roll for the constituency for which the candidate seeks election and shall be countersigned with the acceptance of the candidate or his or her chief election agent: Provided that if, at the time a nomination paper is lodged in terms of subsection (5), the name of any person nominating the candidate does not appear on the voters roll, the nomination officer shall reject the nominator unless the candidate produces a voters registration certificate in respect of that nominator or a copy thereof certified by a commissioner of oaths; and [Proviso inserted by s. 35 of Act No. 17 of 2007] [Paragraph amended by s. 20 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (b) may specify a distinctive symbol which the candidate wishes to appear on the ballot paper in conjunction with his or her name; and (c) may, if the candidate is to stand for or be sponsored by any political party, specify that fact, together with the name of the political party and an abbreviation of such name which the candidate wishes to appear on the ballot paper; and (d) shall be accompanied by a passport-sized photograph of the candidate; and [Paragraph as amended by s. 35 of Act No. 17 of 2007] (e) shall be accompanied by two copies of the electoral code of conduct for political parties and candidates prescribed in the Fourth Schedule, with the candidate’s name printed or legibly written at the bottom of each page thereof, and signed next to his or her name by the candidate or his or her chief election agent (which copies may be obtained on nomination day from the nomination officer, and one copy of which will be returned to the candidate or his or her chief election agent on due completion of the nomination); and [Paragraph substituted by s. 14 of Act No. 3 of 2012] (f) shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed. [Paragraph inserted by s. 14 of Act No. 3 of 2012] [Subsection amended by s. 20 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (2) Where a nomination paper specifies the matters referred to in subsection (1)(c), the nomination paper shall be countersigned by any two designated office-bearers of the political party concerned. [Subsection substituted by s. 20 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (2a) … [Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act No. 3 of 2012 and repealed by s. 20 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (3) Nomination papers in respect of candidates for election as constituency members of the National Assembly may be lodged with the constituency elections officers for the constituencies concerned at any time after the publication of the proclamation referred to in subsection (1) of section thirty-eight but before the time on nomination day or the last nomination day, as the case may be, specified in subsection (5). [Subsection amended by s. 20 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (4) At the same time as a nomination paper is lodged in terms of subsection (3), the candidate or his or her agent shall provide the constituency elections officers with an address, including where possible a telephone number, where the candidate may be contacted during the election period in the election concerned. [Subsection as amended by s. 35 of Act No. 17 of 2007] 68