PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 21AF Acting returning officers

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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 21AF

21AF Acting returning officers

(1) The Electoral Commissioner may appoint a person (whether or not already an election official) to act as a returning officer for a district during the illness or absence of the returning officer or during a vacancy in the office of returning officer for the district. The appointment need not be in writing, but is to be confirmed in writing as soon as is practicable afterwards.

(2) The person may act as, and is taken to be, the returning officer during the illness or absence of the returning officer or during a vacancy in the office of the returning officer.

(3) This section does not prevent the appointment of a person as a returning officer to fill a vacancy in that office.