Section 80 of Representation Of The People Act - Election petitions

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In this Part and in [Part VII], unless the context otherwise requires,-
[(a) any reference to a High Court or to the Chief Justice or Judge of a High Court shall, in relation to a Union territory having a Court of the Judicial Commissioner, be construed as a reference to the said Court of the Judicial Commissioner or to the Judicial Commissioner or any Additional Judicial Commissioner, as the case may be;]
[(b) "candidate" means a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate at any election;]
(c) "costs" means all costs, charges and expenses of, or incidental to, a trial of an election petition;
(d) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand or not to stand as or [to withdraw or not to withdraw] from being, a candidate, or to vote or refrain from voting at an election;
[(e) "High Court" means the High Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the election to which the election petition relates has been held;]
(f) "returned candidate" means a candidate whose name has been published under section 67 as duly elected.

CHAPTER II

Presentation Of Election Petitions To Election Commission

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