(f)if, having been nominated as a candidate for the Federal or any Provincial Legislature or having acted as an election agent of any person so nominated, he has failed to lodge a return of election expenses within the time and in the manner required by any Order in Council made under this Act or by any Act of the Federal or the Provincial Legislature, unless -five years have elapsed from the date by which the. return ought to have been lodged or the Governor-General, acting in his discretion, has removed the disqualification: