634. If at the expiration of the period prescribed for the nomination of candidates no person has been nominated or if all the persons nominated have withdrawn before the closing of the poll, the presiding officer shall immediately send notice thereof to the Regional Government, which shall forthwith transmit its recommendation to the Minister for the appointment of a commissioner.
If the nomination of candidates could not be held because the electoral list was not put in force in time, the presiding officer shall immediately recommence the election proceedings to fill the office and give for such purposes the notice prescribed by section 628. In such case, the presiding officer must see that the election proceedings already commenced are continued if they were validly made.
1978, c. 78, s. 1; 1999, c. 40, s. 159.