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Pakistan Penal Code

Chapter IXA · Of Offences Relating to Elections

"Candidates" "Electoral right" defined

Section 171-A · Pakistan Penal Code

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For the purposes of this Chapter

(a)

“candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election and includes a person who, when an election is in contemplation, holds himself out as a prospective candidate thereat ; provided that he is subsequently nominated as a candidate at such election ;

(b)

“electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.