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Amendment of Rule 1 of First Schedule to Principal Act.
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55.—The following Rule is hereby substituted for Rule 1 of the First Schedule to the Principal Act:
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“1. (1) It shall be lawful for any local returning officer with the consent of the Minister to appoint a deputy local returning officer for the discharge of all or any particular part of the duties of such local returning officer.
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(2) Where at a contested presidential election the same person is local returning officer for two or more constituencies, he shall—
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(a) in case those constituencies are two and not more, appoint, in respect of one of them, a deputy local returning officer to open the ballot boxes and count the votes,
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(b) in any other case, appoint, in respect of each of the constituencies (except one), a deputy local returning officer to open the ballot boxes and count the votes.
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(3) A person shall not be appointed under paragraph (2) of this Rule unless the appointment has been approved of by the Minister.
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(4) Subject to the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs, the local returning officer for a constituency shall conduct a presidential election in such constituency unless he is prevented from so doing by illness or other reasonable cause sufficient in the opinion of the Minister.
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(5) References in the subsequent Rules of this Schedule to local returning officers shall, where appropriate, include references to deputy local returning officers.”
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