Section 60, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by threevoters of the electoral area for which he intends to contest an election and no candidate may be nominated for more than one electoral area. (2) The nomination shall be as prescribed in the Sixth Schedule and shall be subscribed by the candidate and the persons nominating him. (3) A Returning Officer shall provide nomination papers and shall supply a voter with the number of nomination papers that he may reasonably require and shall, at the request of a voter, the candidate and all his nominators being present, complete the nomination on the voter’s behalf. (4) Each candidate, or one of the persons nominating him, shall deliver his nomination paper, subscribed in accordance with subsection (3), at the office of the Returning Officer before four o’clock in the afternoon of the last day for the delivery of nomination papers. (5) Every candidate shall pay to the Returning Officer a non-refundable nomination fee of the prescribed amount and the nomination shall not be valid until the nomination fee has been paid. (6) On the delivery of the nomination paper of a candidate together with the prescribed nomination fee, the Returning Officer for the electoral area shall forthwith acknowledge receipt of the nomination paper and nomination fee. (7) When the requirements concerning the completion and delivery of nomination papers have been duly completed, the Returning Officer shall forthwith publish by displaying in a conspicuous manner at the place of receipt of the nomination, a notice containing the name of the candidate and the names of the voters nominating him, the political party of the candidate as applicable , and the symbol of the candidate. (8) Nomination fees received by the Electoral Commission shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund and shall not be refunded.