The Constituted Authority, established pursuant to section 44(A)(l) of the Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 1997, on the 2nd day of January, 1998, filed a Notice of Motion in the Supreme Court seeking to have declared void, the taking of the poll in the constituency of West Central St. Andrew. Section 44 (A)(l) enacts as follows: "There shall be established on the issuing of an election notice by a returning officer under section 22(1), a body to be known as the Constituted Authority which shall continue in force for a period ending six months after the day referred to in section 22(2)(b)" Section 52 A (1) of the said act stipulates: "Where after the taking of a poll the Constituted Authority or a candidate is of the opinion 'that during the taking of the polling circumstances existed which could constitute grounds as specified in section 37 of the Election Petitions Act, the Constituted Authority may, on its own motion or at the request of the candidate, make an application under that section to the Election Court to have the taking of the poll declared void. Section 37 of the Election Petitions Act states: "The Constituted Authority may, subject to section 38, apply to the Election Court for the voiding of the taking of a poll on one or more of the following grounds (a) that the total number of votes cast in a constituency or electoral division exceeds the number of electors on the official list for that constituency or electoral division; (b) that ballot boxes have been stolen or destroyed or have in any manner been tampered with and the number of electors on the list of electors for the polling stations is more than the difference in the number of votes cast for

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