CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 120

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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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