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48. - (1) No returning officer, or officer appointed
under this Schedule, or any partner or clerk of any such
officer, shall act as a polling or counting agent.
(2) If any returning officer, or afficer appointed
under this Part of this Schedule, or the partner or clerk of
any such officer, acts as a polling or counting agent in
contravention of the provisions of this paragraph, he shall
be guilty of a misdemeanour.
49. No person shall be appointed to act as an officer
mder this Part of this Schedule for the purposes of an
election who has been employed by or on behalf of a candidate
in or about the election.
50. A presiding officer may do, by the officers appointed
to assist him, any act which he is required or authorized by
this Part of this Schedule to do at a polling station except
ordering the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from
the polling station.
51. A candidate may himself do any act or thing which an
agent of his, if appointed, would have been authorized or
required to do, or may assist his agent in doing any such act
or thing, but before acting under this paragraph the candidate
shall make the declaration of secrecy required to be made by
agents.
52. Where in this Part of this Schedule any act or thing
is required or authorized to be done in the presence of the
agents of the candidates, the non-attendance of any agents or
agent at the time and place appointed for the purpose shall
not, if the act or thing is otherwise duly done, invalidate the
act or thing done.
Prohibition of disclosure of vote.
53. No person who has voted at an election shall, in
any legal proceeding to question the election, be required to
state for whom he voted.
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