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Article 71 Officials not to act for candidates

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(1)

If—

(a)

any constituency or regional returning officer at a constituency election,

(b)

any constituency or regional returning officer at a regional election,

(c)

any officer or clerk appointed under Schedule 5, or

(d)

any partner or clerk of any such person,

acts as an agent for an individual candidate or a group of party list candidates in the conduct or management of the election, he shall be guilty of an offence, but nothing in this article prevents an individual candidate from acting as his own election agent or a party list candidate from acting as election agent for the candidates on the list.

(2)

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