(1)The Returning Officer shall publish in the Bihar Gazette and in such other manner as he may think fit, a notification calling upon the pharmacists registered in the several parts of the State Register to elect the requisite number of members to the State Council under clause (a) of Section 19, and shall, by such notification, fix a programme of time for the various stages according to which the election shall be held, specifying in particular the following :-(a)Last date and hour of receiving nomination papers.(b)Date, hour and place for scrutiny of nomination papers.(c)Last date and hour for receiving voting papers, in case there be polling, i.e., if the number of candidates duly nominated exceeds the number of seats for which the election is held.(2)Such notification shall be published fourteen days before the date fixed in the programme of time to be the last date for receiving nomination papers and, except in the case of the first general election under clause (a) of section 19, on a date not less than forty-two days, and not more than seventy-five days before the date on which the term of office of the outgoing members expires.
