Article 68 Officials not to act for candidates

(1)

If–

(a)

any constituency returning officer or regional returning officer;

(b)

any officer, clerk or member of staff of any such officer, appointed under the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules; or

(c)

any partner or clerk of any such person,

acts as an agent for a candidate or a registered party in the conduct or management of the election, he shall be guilty of an offence, but nothing in this article prevents a candidate from acting as his own election agent or a candidate on a registered party’s regional list from acting as election agent for that registered party in relation to that list.

(2)

A person guilty of an offence under this article shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.