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Parties and Candidates
PC001
Registration requirements for parties (Chamber 1)
Question: What are the registration requirements for political parties running for national elections (Chamber 1)?
Answer(s):
a . Signature requirement (specify requirement) b . Deposit requirement (specify amount)
Comments: Signature Requirement
Every candidate for election shall be nominated on one nomination
paper by at least two registered voters of the electoral district for
which such candidate seeks election and his consent to nomination
shall be given on such nomination paper and attested by one witness;
and such candidate shall swear the affidavit in Form No. 13 that he
is, to the best of his knowledge, not disqualified under the provisions
of the Constitution from contesting and being elected as a member of
the Council.
Deposit Requirement
A candidate for election, or someone on his behalf, shall
deposit with the returning officer, on or before the day of his
nomination, the sum of five hundred dollars, and, if he fails to do so,
the nomination of such candidate shall be deemed to be withdrawn.
Source:
Verified: 2019/02/26
PC003
Registration requirements for candidates (Chamber 1)
Question: What are the legal qualifications to become a candidate at legislative elections (Chamber 1)?
Answer(s):
a . Age b . Citizenship c . Country of birth e . Citizenship of parents
Comments: 65.—(1) Subject to this section and section 66, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a
member of the House of Assembly if, and shall not be qualified to be so elected unless, he or
she—
(a) was so qualified immediately before the commencement of this Constitution; or
(b) is a person who—
(i) is a Virgin Islander of the age of twenty-one years or upwards; and
(ii) is otherwise qualified as a voter under section 68.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), for the purposes of subsection (1)(b)(i) a “Virgin
Islander” is a person who belongs to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent who was—
(a) born in the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who at the time of the birth was a British
overseas territories citizen (or a British Dependent Territories citizen) by virtue of birth in
the Virgin Islands or by virtue of descent from a father or mother who was born in the
Virgin Islands;
(b) born in the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who at the time of the birth belonged to
the Virgin Islands by birth or descent; or
(c) born outside the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who at the time of the birth belonged
to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent.
(3) A person born outside the Virgin Islands who belongs to the Virgin Islands by descent shall
not be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly unless one of his or her
grandparents belonged to the Virgin Islands by birth.
Source: The Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007, Article 65
http://www.bvi.gov.vg/sites/default/files/constitution.pdf
Verified: 2019/02/21
PC008
Independent candidates
Question: Can independent candidates compete in presidential or legislative elections?
Answer(s):
f . No information available
Comments:
Source:
Verified: 2019/02/21
PC012
Public funding of parties
Question: Do political parties receive direct/indirect public funding?
Answer(s):
e . No information available
Comments:
Source:
Verified: 2019/02/21
PC015
Question: What is the basis of the public funding?
Answer(s):
f . No information available
Comments:
Source:
Verified: 2019/02/21
PC017
Question: Are political parties entitled to private funding?
Answer:
c . No information available
Comments:
Source:
Verified: 2019/02/21
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