vacant, but in reckoning the said period of sixty days no account shall be taken of
any period commencing with the dissolution of Parliament and ending on the day
on which the next following election of members of the Assembly is held.
(6) A person shall not be a candidate for election as President at an election meeting
unless he is nominated for election or re-election as the President by a nomination
paper which:
(a) is signed by him and by three or more elected members of the Assembly; and
(b) is delivered to the Speaker at least fourteen days before the Presidential election
date.
(7) The names of the candidates, together with the names of the persons by whom
their nomination papers are signed, shall be published in the Gazette and if they
have not been so published at least ten days before the Presidential election date,
the election meeting shall be adjourned until the tenth day after the date of such
publication unless, on the Presidential election date, the Assembly, by resolution
supported by the votes of not less than two thirds of all the elected members
thereof, resolves that the meeting shall not be adjourned or shall be adjourned to
some other date.
(8) A candidate in a Presidential ballot shall be declared to be elected if, and shall not
be declared to be elected unless, he receives the votes of more than half of all the
elected members of the Assembly.
(9) If in a Presidential ballot:
(a) there are three or more candidates; and
(b) none of the candidates is elected; and
(c) one of the candidates receives a smaller number of votes than each of the
others.