The Commission may appoint Deputy Electoral Commissioners.

The number of Deputy Electoral Commissioners shall not exceed such number as the Commission, with the agreement of the Speaker’s Committee, may determine.

A person shall not be appointed as a Deputy Electoral Commissioner if he is F1prevented by section 3(4) (read without regard to section 3(4A)) from being appointed as an Electoral Commissioner.

The functions of a Deputy Electoral Commissioner are limited to serving as a member of any Boundary Committee to which he is appointed.

Schedule 1 contains further provisions about Deputy Electoral Commissioners.