Paragraph 17
Where a poll is to be held the Returning Officer shall as soon as may be after nomination day invite each candidate to supply within seven days particulars of his age, qualifications and career and an election address in a statement of not more than three hundred words in all.
Subject to the provisions of this paragraph such statement shall be printed at the cost of the Council and sent along with the voting papers issued under paragraph 19 of this Scheme to all registered insurance brokers eligible to vote.
Nothing in this paragraph shall require the Returning Officer to issue a statement of a length greater than that specified in this paragraph or to issue anything which in his opinion is or may be libellous or scandalous or untrue on matters of fact.
Every candidate who supplies such a statement shall be deemed to have agreed:—
that the decision of the Returning Officer not to issue the same or any part thereof shall be final; and
to indemnify the Returning Officer, the Deputy Returning Officer and the Council against any liability to any third party which they may incur by reason of issuing the same or any part thereof.
Notes on Schedule
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1977 c. 46. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule was amended by S.I. 1999/2781.