The Presidential Elections Act, 1985

PUBLIC NOTICE Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Extraordinary Vol. CXVI, No. 68 dated 5th September, 1985 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 24 OF 1985 Published 5th September, 1985 THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1985 (No. 1 of 1985) PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (PRESCRIPTION OF NOMINATION DAY ETC.) ORDER, 1985 [Margin: Short title.] WHEREAS the Presidential Election (Appointment of Day for Election of President) Order, 1985 (P.N. No. 23 of 1985) appointed the 1st day of October, 1985 as the day on which an election shall be held to elect a person to fill the vacancy in the office of President declared by the Proclamation published in the Gazette on the 22nd day of August, 1985; NOW THEREFORE in exercise of the powers conferred on the Returning Officer by section 12 of the Presidential Elections Act, 1985 (Act No. 1 of 1985) this Order is hereby made:—

The day on which the nomination papers of the Presiden-tial Candidate for the Presidential Election, 1985 shall be delivered to the Returning Officer shall be Friday 20th September, 1985. [Margin: Nomination day for Presidential Election, 1985.]

Returning Officer by 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the said Friday 20th day of September, 1985. [Margin: Time for delivery of nomination papers.]

Returning Officer at the City Hall, Wallace Johnson Street, Freetown. [Margin: Place of delivery of nomination papers.] MADE this 30th day of August, 1985. O. B. R. TEJAN, Returning Officer. PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY No. 68 OF 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1985