| 5.1 | The registrar shall accept the nomination of a person as a candidate for an election if he is satisfied that— |
| 5.1.1 | the nomination concerned substantially complies with the requirements set out in regulation 4; |
[Paragraph 5.1.1 substituted by Government Notice No. R. 11 of 1992]
| 5.1.2 | the persons by whom the person concerned has thus been nominated, are enfranchised voters; and |
| 5.1.3 | the nominated person concerned qualifies in terms of section 6 of the Act to be elected as a member of the council. |
| 5.2 | If the registrar refuses to accept the nomination of a person as a candidate for an election, he shall notify the nominated person concerned and the persons by whom that person has been nominated, in writing of his refusal and of the grounds on which it is based. |
| 5.3 | If a vacancy for an elected member of the council occurs between the date of compilation of a notice referred to in regulation 3 and the nomination day specified in such notice, the nominations received for the vacancies specified in the notice concerned shall also be deemed to be nominations for the vacancy concerned. |
| 5.4 | If the number of candidates whose nominations for an election have been accepted, is equal to or less than the number of vacancies for elected members of the council on the nomination day concerned— |
| 5.4.1 | those candidates shall be deemed to have been duly elected as members of the council; and |
| 5.4.2 | the election of those candidates as members of the council shall be made known in the manner referred to in regulation 15. |
| 5.5 | If there are still one or more vacancies for elected members of the council after vacancies have been filled in terms of regulation 5.4, the registrar shall anew in the manner referred to in regulation 3, call for nominations for candidates for election to the remaining vacancies. |
