30. Replacement of section 39 of the principal enactment

Section 39 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :—

39. (1) Notwithstanding the death of a candidate for election for any local authority between the adjournment of the election for the purposes of the poll and the commencement of the poll, the poll shall be taken on the date specified for the same under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 38.

In the event a vacancy occurring due to the death of a candidate, the secretary of the recognized political party or the group leader of the independent group or person whose name appears in the second place in the nomination paper submitted by such recognized political party or independent group, to which such candidate who died belonged, shall nominate a person who is qualified to be elected as a member under section 8 of this Ordinance, to fill such vacancy.”.