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Form of election petition
Town Councils (Registration Of Electors And Elections) Regulations, reg. 113 · Revised Edition 2020
The following form, or one to the like effect, shall be sufficientIN THE SUPREME COURT OF BELIZE (Town Councils) Act/Election for (state the town) 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 claim 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).
100 2. And your petitioners 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 petitioners 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.)
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