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33.—(1) An election agent of a candidate for return as a constituency member may appoint to act in any part of the constituency one, but not more than one, deputy election agent.
(2) An election agent of an individual candidate for return as a regional member or registered party which has submitted a regional list may appoint to act in any part of the region one, but not more than one, deputy election agent.
(3) In this Order, any deputy election agent appointed under paragraph (1) or (2) is referred to as a sub-agent.
(4) As regards matters in a part of the constituency or, as the case may be, region, for which there is a sub-agent the election agent may act by the sub-agent and—
(a)anything done for the purposes of this Order by or to the sub-agent in the sub-agent’s part of the constituency or, as the case may be, region shall be deemed to be done by or to the election agent;
(b)any act or default of a sub-agent which, if the sub-agent were the election agent, would be an illegal practice or other offence against this Order shall be an illegal practice and offence against this Order committed by the sub-agent, and the sub-agent shall be liable to punishment accordingly; and
(c)the candidate or, as the case may be, each candidate on the registered party’s regional list shall suffer the like incapacity as if that act or default had been the election agent’s act or default.
(5) Not later than the second day before the day of the poll the election agent shall declare in writing the name and address of every sub-agent to the appropriate returning officer, and the appropriate returning officer shall forthwith give public notice of the name and address of every sub-agent so declared.
(6) The appointment of a sub-agent—
(a)shall not be vacated by the election agent who appointed the sub-agent ceasing to be election agent; but
(b)may be revoked by whoever is for the time being the election agent,
and in the event of the revocation of the appointment or of the death of a sub-agent another sub-agent may be appointed, and the new sub-agent’s name and address shall be forthwith declared in writing by the election agent to the appropriate returning officer, who shall forthwith give public notice of the name and address so declared.
(7) The declaration to be made to the appropriate returning officer, and the notice to be given, under paragraph (5) or (6) shall specify the part of the constituency or, as the case may be, region within which any sub-agent is appointed to act.
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I1Art. 33 in force at 16.12.2015 in accordance with art. 1(1)
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