# The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003, Article 19: Returning officers: discharge of functions


(1) A constituency or a regional returning officer at an Assembly election may, in writing, appoint one or more persons to discharge all or any of his functions.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a constituency returning officer at a constituency or a regional election.
(3) In relation to an ordinary election and to a regional election other than at an ordinary election, it shall be the duty of each regional returning officer and each constituency returning officer for an Assembly constituency in the Assembly electoral region to co-operate with each other in the discharge of their functions.
(4) The duty imposed by paragraph (3) applies as between constituency returning officers in an Assembly electoral region as well as between such officers and the regional returning officer for the electoral region.
(5) In this Order, a reference to a constituency returning officer in relation to the discharge of functions at a regional election is a reference to the discharge of such functions in relation to the Assembly constituency for which he is the returning officer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/284/article/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-2003/article-19
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