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Form of election petition
Belize City Council (Registration Of Electors And Elections) Regulations, reg. 110 · Revised Edition 2020
The following form, or one to the like effect, shall be sufficient:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BELIZE (Belize City Council Act) Election for the Belize City Council held on the day of 20 .
The petition of A., of , (or of A., of and B., of as the case may be), whose names are subscribed.
1. Your petitioner A. is a person who voted (or had a right to vote, as the case may be) at the above election (or claimed to have had a right to be returned at the above election or was a candidate at the above election) and your petitioner B. (here state in like manner the right of each petitioner).
2. And your petitioner state that the election was held on the day of 20 , when A. B., C. D.
and E. F. (name all candidates) were candidates and the Returning Officer has returned A.B. as being duly elected.
3. And your petitioners say that (here state the facts and grounds on which the petitioners rely).
Wherefore your petitioner pray that it might be determined that the said A. B. was not duly elected or returned, and that the election was void (or that the said E. F. was duly elected and ought to have been returned, or as the case may be).
Signed A.B.
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