Returning officers and election clerks

(1) For the purposes of holding an election the Commission shall, from time to time and as occasion demands, appoint a person to be a returning officer for each division, and may appoint one or more persons to assist the returning officer in the performance of his duties. A person so appointed to assist any 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 to a returning officer shall unless the context otherwise requires be deemed to include a reference to every such person. (2) The Chief Elections Officer shall, with the approval of the Commission, appoint an election clerk for each division. If at any time between the issue of a writ for an election and the declaration of the result of that election 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. REVISED EDITION 2018 20 (3) An appointment made under sub-sections (1) and (2), may be revoked at any time.