Returning Officer and Election Clerks

(1) For the purposes of holding an election, the Elections and Boundaries Commission established under section 88 of the Belize Constitution shall, from time to time and as occasion demands, appoint a person to be the Returning Officer for the town in respect of which an election is held, and may appoint one or more persons to assist the Returning Officer in the performance of his duties. A person so appointed to assist the Returning Officer shall have all the powers and may perform all the duties of the officer he is appointed to assist, and any reference in this Act or regulations made thereunder to a Returning Officer shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include a reference to every such person. CAP.4. (2) The Chief Elections Officer shall, with the approval of the Commission, appoint an Election Clerk and one or more Assistant Clerks for each town where an election is held. If at any time between the dissolution of a Council and the declaration of the result of the election following thereon the Returning Officer dies or becomes incapable of performing his duties as such, the Election Clerk shall forthwith report that fact to the Chief Elections Officer and shall discharge all the duties and exercise all the powers of the Returning Officer until some other Returning Officer is appointed or the Returning Officer ceases to be incapable of performing his duties, as the case may be. (3) An appointment made under sub-sections (1) and (2), may be revoked at any time.