ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (a) shall be signed by not fewer than ten 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 (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 (e) shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed. (2) Where a nomination paper specifies the matters referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the nomination paper shall be countersigned by a person purporting to be an office-bearer of the political party concerned with authority to certify that the candidate is to stand for or be sponsored by that political party. (3) Nomination papers in respect of candidates for election as members of Parliament 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 thirtyeight but before the time on nomination day or the last nomination day, as the case may be, specified in subsection (5). (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. (5) On the day and at the place fixed in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section thirty-eight, the nomination officer shall hold a public court, commencing at ten o’clock in the morning, for receiving the nomination of candidates for election as a member of Parliament for the constituency for which he or she is the nomination officer. (6) The nomination officer shall in open court— (a) announce whether any candidate has lodged his or her nomination paper before the sitting of the court and, if so, the name of every such candidate; and (b) receive any further nominations for election as a member of Parliament for the constituency for which he or she is the nomination officer. (7) No nomination paper shall be received by the nomination officer in terms of subsection (6) after four o’clock in the afternoon of nomination day or, where there is more than one nomination day for the election concerned, the last such nomination day: - 37 -