For the purposes of this Chapter--

¹ [(a) "candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;]

(b) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at any election.

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1. Substituted by Act 40 of 1975, section 9, for clause (a). (w.e.f. 6-8-1975).