Section 63, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) A voter of the electoral area in which a candidateintends to contest an election may at any time up to five o’clock in the afternoon of the last appointed day for the receipt of nominations, object to the nomination of that candidate on any of the grounds set out in subsection (2), and the Returning Officer shall decide on the validity of the objection. (2) The Returning Officer shall be entitled to hold a nomination paper invalid only on one or more of the following grounds:– 28 29 Nomination of candidates. Political party list of endorsed candidates for parliamentary Statutory declaration in support of political party list of endorsed Objections to nominations. (a) that the particulars of the candidate or his nominators are not as required by law; (b) that the paper is not subscribed as so required; (c) that any one of the nominators is not a voter; (d) that the candidate has not paid the nomination fee; (e) that the candidate is a person disqualified from being a member of Parliament under section 76 of the Constitution. (3) The Returning Officer shall give his decision on an objection to a nomination paper as soon as practicable after it is made, but in any event before six o’clock in the afternoon of the last day appointed for the receipt of nominations. (4) Where the Returning Officer decides that a nomination paper is invalid, he shall endorse and sign on the paper the fact and the reasons for the decision. (5) A candidate aggrieved by the decision of the Returning Officer as to the validity or otherwise of a nomination paper may appeal to the Electoral Commission, which may uphold the decision of the Returning Officer or reverse it. (6) The decision of the Returning Officer or, in the case of an appeal, the Electoral Commission, on the validity of a nomination shall be final and shall not be questioned in any proceeding whatsoever, except by way of an election petition.