National Assembly (Validity of Elections) Act – Chapter 1:04 Sections – 3, 5, 29 and 30 3. (1) Any question referred to in article 163(1)(a), (b) and(c) of the Constitution may, in respect of an election referred to in article 60(2) of the Constitution and with a view to securing appropriate remedial order, be referred to the Court and shall thereupon be determined by it, in accordance with this Act. (2) Every such reference shall be by a petition (hereinafter referred to as an election petition) presented to the Court in accordance with this Act. 5. (1) Subject to this section, an election petition shall be presented within twenty-eight days after the results of the election out of which the matter in question on the petition arose are published in the Gazette under section 99 of the Representation of the People Act. (2) If the petition questions the effect of the election upon an allegation of a corrupt practice and specifically alleges a payment of money or other reward to have been made by the date referred to in subsection (1) in pursuance or furtherance of the alleged corrupt practice, it may be presented within twenty-eight days after the date of the payment. (3) An election petition questioning the effect of the election upon an allegation of an illegal practice may, so far as respects that illegal practice, be presented (a) within fourteen days after section 109(1) of the Representation of the People Act has been complied with in relation to the election expenses of the group of candidates comprised in any list mentioned in section 5 with reference to that election petition; (b) if specifically alleging a payment of money or some other act to have been made or done since such compliance, in the pursuance or in furtherance of the alleged illegal practice, within twenty-eight days after the date of the payment or other act: