Section 169 BNS: Candidate, Electoral Right Defined

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Section 169 BNS | BNS 169

For the purposes of this Chapter—

(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;

(b) “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.

READ OTHER SECTIONS OF CHAPTER IX — OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS

Section No.	Section Title
169	Candidate, electoral right defined.
170	Bribery.
171	Undue influence at elections.
172	Personation at elections.
173	Punishment for bribery.
174	Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election.
175	False statement in connection with an election.
176	Illegal payments in connection with an election.
177	Failure to keep election accounts.