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(e) in the case of a party-list candidate for election as a member of the provincial council,
is also nominated as a party-list candidate for election as a Senator or the National
Assembly, or as a candidate for election as a constituency member of the National
Assembly, or as a councillor.
(2) Where a person is nominated more than once contrary to subsection (1)(b), (c), (d) or
(e), all the nominations of the person as a party-list candidate shall be void.
[Section inserted by s. 19 of Act No. 6 of 2014]
45E Nomination of party-list candidates
(1) On the day and at the place fixed in terms of section 45C(2) for the sitting of a
nomination court to receive nominations for party-list candidates, the nomination officer shall
hold a public court, commencing at ten o’clock in the morning, at which an office-bearer of a
political party shall—
(a) present himself or herself before the nomination officer in the electoral province for
which such party has nominated one or more ordinary candidates; and
(b) submit a nomination paper containing three party lists of the names of party-list
candidates nominated by such party for the electoral province concerned, that is to say,
party-list candidates for the senatorial, National Assembly and provincial council seats
allocated to that electoral province in terms of section 45C(4), each candidate being a
person who, in the case of a party-list candidate for election to—
(i) the Senate, is eligible in terms of section 121(1)(a) of the Constitution for
election to the Senate; or
(ii) the National Assembly, is eligible in terms of section 124(1)(b) of the
Constitution for election to the National Assembly; or
(iii) the provincial council, is eligible in terms of section 268(2) of the Constitution
for election to the provincial council.
(2) A nomination paper referred to in subsection (1)(b) shall be in the prescribed form
and—
(a) must state the name of the political party and the address of its main office in
Zimbabwe; and
(b) must state any abbreviation of the party’s name which the party may wish to appear on
the ballot paper; and
(c) may specify a distinctive symbol which the party wishes to appear on the ballot paper
in conjunction with its name; and
(d) shall—
(i) list the names, addresses and national identity numbers of—
A. six party-list candidates nominated by the party for election as Senators
for the electoral province; and
B. six party-list candidates nominated by the party for election as women
members of the National Assembly for the electoral province; and
(ii) in the case of an electoral province that is a non-metropolitan province, list the
names, addresses and national identity numbers of ten party-list candidates
nominated by the party for election as members of the provincial council for
that province; and
(iii) contain a declaration that no party-list candidate has been nominated in any
other party list lodged with the nomination officer or any other nomination
officer;
and
(e) bear the signature of each of the party-list candidates in the appropriate space, each
signature being countersigned by the office-bearer; and
(f) in respect of party-list candidates for election to—
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