Section 1
SECTION 1. Section four hundred and five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, as amended by Act Numbered Three thousand and thirty, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 405. When and with whom certificates of candidacy to be filed.—The certificates of candidacy for the office Tar of senator and representative shall be filed not less than twenty days before the day set for the election with the Chief of the Executive Bureau, who shall immediately send certified copies thereof to the secretaries of the Houses of the Legislature and to the provincial boards where the elections are to be held, which latter shall forward certified copies to all polling places: Provided, That without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, the Executive Bureau shall communicate the names of the candidates who have sent their certificates of candidacy to it, to the provincial boards by telegraph, if there be any. "Certificates of candidacy for the provincial offices shall be filed not less than twenty days before the day of the election with the secretary of the provincial board of the province concerned, who shall immediately send certified copies to all the polling places of the province and to the Executive Bureau. "Certificates of candidacy for municipal offices shall be filed not less than ten days before the day of the election with the municipal secretary, who shall send certified copies thereof to the polling places of the municipality concerned and to the Executive Bureau. "It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Executive Bureau, the secretary of the provincial board, and the municipal secretary, upon receiving any certificate of candidacy, to acknowledge receipt thereof: Provided, That in case of the death or disqualification of a candidate for any Insular, provincial, or municipal office whose certificate of candidacy has been duly filed, after expiration of the time limits above established, any legally qualified elector may file either with the secretary of the provincial board or with the municipal secretary, without distinction, not later than the noon hour on the day of the election, his own certificate of candidacy for the office for which the dead or disqualified person was a candidate: Provided, however, That in the event of the death or disqualification occurring on the day before the election or before the noon hour on the day of the election, said certificates shall be filed with any board of inspectors of the municipality where he resides."