27. Amendment of section 36 of the principal enactment

Section 36 of the principal enactment as last amended by Act, No. 25 of 1990, is hereby further amended by the repeal of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph:—

“(b)

after the rejection of a nomination paper or papers or where the names appearing in any nomination paper or papers are removed under subsection (3)

of section 31 due to any reason specified therein, the candidates of only one recognized political party or an independent group stand nominated for election, the returning officer shall inform the

Commissioner of such fact. The Commissioner shall thereupon call the secretary of such recognized political party or the leader of such independent group, as the case may be, to specify which of the candidates from among those whose names appear in the nomination paper under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 28, shall be declared elected as the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of that local authority. Upon such secretary or the group leader, as the case may be, communicating his decision to the Commissioner, the Commissioner shall declare the member so specified elected as the

Mayor and Deputy Mayor respectively, of that local authority;”.