PART IIITHE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Officials not to act for candidates64

1

If–

a

any constituency returning officer or regional returning officer;

b

any officer or clerk appointed under the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules; or

c

any partner or clerk of any such person,

acts as an agent for a candidate or a registered party in the conduct or management of the election, he shall be guilty of an offence, but nothing in this article prevents a candidate from acting as his own election agent or a candidate on a registered party’s regional list from acting as election agent for that registered party in relation to that list.

2

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