| (a) | Every registered party that intends to contest an election, must cause its list or lists of nominated candidates to be— |
| (i) | signed on each page by the party's duly authorised representative, and to be delivered by hand at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer situated in Election House, Riverside Office Park, 1303, Heuwel Avenue, in Centurion; or |
| (ii) | submitted electronically to the chief electoral officer as set out in subregulation 1A below. |
[Regulation 2(1)(a) substituted by regulation 3.1 of Notice No. 373, GG 42289, dated 6 March 2019]
| (b) | The list or lists of candidates must on submission be accompanied by written proof from the concerned party that the representative who signed such list or lists of candidates is duly authorised by the party to sign the list or lists of candidates and to deal with matters connected therewith. |
| (c) | The list or lists of must be submitted— |
| (i) | in the case of the national list for the National Assembly, in a form similar to Appendix 1; |
| (ii) | in the case of the regional lists for the National Assembly, in a form similar to Appendix 2; or |
| (iii) | in the case of a list for a provincial legislature, in a form similar to Appendix 3. |
| (d) | The declaration to be signed by the duly authorised representative of the party in terms of section 27(2)(cA) must be in a form similar to Appendix 3. |
| (e) | The voters referred to in section 27(2)(cB) must sign a form similar to Appendix 10 in the case of an election for the National Assembly and Appendix 11 in the case of an election for a provincial legislature and the party contemplated in section 27(2)(cB) must upload the completed form and electronically submit the identity numbers of all such registered voters on the CNS system and comply with the requirements displayed on the CNS system. |
| (f) | The quotas as determined in sections 27(2)(cB)(i)(aa) are set out in Table 1 of Schedule A to these Regulations. |
| (g) | The quotas as determined in sections 27(2)(cB)(i)(bb) are set out in Table 2 of Schedule A to these Regulations. |
[Regulation 2(1)(d)(e)(f)(g) inserted by section 3(3.1) of the Amendment to the Regulations Concerning the Submission of Candidates, 2024, Notice No. 4304, GG50066, dated 1 February 2024]
| (1A) | If a party elects to submit the information and documents contemplated in section 27 electronically as contemplated in subregulation (1)(a)(ii), it must do so by— |
| (a) | providing the information required in the relevant fields for that purpose on the CNS system; and |
| (b) | uploading the annexures required for that purpose onto the CNS system |
[Regulation 2(1A) inserted by regulation 3.2 of Notice No. 373, GG 42289, dated 6 March 2019]
| (2) | The undertaking and declaration to be signed by the duly authorized representative of a party in terms of section 27(2) of the Act, must be in a form similar to Appendix 4. |
| (3) | The acceptance of nomination and the undertaking to be signed by each candidate in terms of section 27(2) of the Act must be in a form similar to Appendix 5. |
| (4) | A copy of that page of every candidate’s identity document on which the candidate’s photo, name and identity number appears, must accompany every party list submitted. |
