68.—(1) If–
(a)any constituency returning officer or regional returning officer;
(b)any officer, clerk or member of staff of any such officer, 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.