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Appointment of personation agents for candidates.
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24.—(1) The local agent in any constituency of a candidate at a presidential election may appoint, for each polling station in each polling place in such constituency, one person (in this Act referred to as a personation agent) to attend at such polling station on behalf of such candidate for the purpose of assisting in the detection of persons committing or attempting to commit the offence of personation.
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(2) The local agent of a candidate in any constituency shall, not less than twelve hours before the commencement of the poll, furnish in writing to the local returning officer in such constituency the names of all personation agents appointed under this section by such local agent together with the name or description of the polling station to which each such personation agent is allotted.
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(3) Every personation agent duly appointed under this section and of whose appointment notice is duly given in accordance with the next preceding sub-section of this section shall be entitled to attend in the polling station to which he is allotted during the whole of the time for which the poll is open and during half an hour before and half an hour after that time.
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(4) No personation agent shall, while the poll remains open, leave the polling station to which he is allotted without previously obtaining the permission of the presiding officer or without depositing with the presiding officer for the duration of his absence all registers, books, and documents in which he has made any note, writing, or mark during the poll.
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(5) Any personation agent who leaves a polling station in contravention of this section shall not be permitted to return to such polling station until after the close of the poll and shall also be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
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