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The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004
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Appointment of sub-agent for individual candidateE+W+S
39.—(1) An election agent for an individual candidate may appoint to act in any part of the electoral region one, but not more than one, deputy election agent (in these Regulations referred to as a sub-agent).
(2) As regards matters in a part of the electoral 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 these Regulations by or to the sub-agent in his part of the electoral region shall be deemed to be done by or to the election agent; and
(b)any act or default of a sub-agent which, if he were the election agent, would be an illegal practice or other offence against these Regulations shall be an illegal practice and offence against these Regulations committed by the sub-agent, and the sub-agent shall be liable to punishment accordingly.
(3) Not later than the fifth 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 officer, and the appropriate officer shall forthwith give public notice of the name and address of every sub-agent so declared.
(4) The appointment of a sub-agent—
(a)shall not be vacated by the election agent who appointed him ceasing to be election agent, but
(b)may be revoked by whoever is for the time being the individual candidate’s 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 his name and address shall be forthwith declared in writing to the appropriate officer, who shall forthwith give public notice of the name and address so declared.
(5) The declaration to be made to the appropriate officer, and the notice to be given by him, under paragraph (3) or paragraph (4) shall specify the part of the electoral region within which any sub-agent is appointed to act.
(6) In paragraphs (2) to (4) references to an election agent are to an election agent of an individual candidate.
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