Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Registration of agents of political parties and independent candidates
138(1)The Chief Electoral Officer shall maintain a registry in which shall be recorded the names and addresses of
(a) the chief agent and electoral district agents of each registered political party filed under this section;
(b) the official agent of each registered independent candidate filed under this section; and
(c) an official agent appointed under section 69 of the Political Process Financing Act and filed under this section.
138(2)Each registered political party shall, within ten days after the party becomes registered, file with the Chief Electoral Officer a notice signed by the leader of the party setting out the name and address of its chief agent.
138(3)The chief agent of a registered political party may be the same person as the official representative of that party if he is registered with the Chief Electoral Officer both as official representative and as chief agent of that party.
138(4)Each registered independent candidate shall, within twenty days after he becomes registered, file with the Chief Electoral Officer a notice signed by him setting out the name and address of his official agent.
138(5)The official agent of a registered independent candidate may be the same person as the official representative of that candidate if he is registered with the Chief Electoral Officer both as official representative and as official agent of that candidate.
138(6)Only one chief agent shall be registered for each registered political party at any one time and only one official agent shall be registered for any registered independent candidate at any one time.
138(7)Notwithstanding subsection (6), the chief agent of a registered political party may, on the written authorization of the leader of that party, appoint at any time not more than one electoral district agent for that party for each electoral district and file the name and address of such appointment with the Chief Electoral Officer.
138(8)An electoral district agent of a registered political party may be the same person as the official representative of a registered district association of that party if he is registered with the Chief Electoral Officer both as an official representative and as an electoral district agent.
138(9)Subsection 137(8) applies mutatis mutandis to chief agents, official agents and electoral district agents.
1978, c.17, s.3; 1994, c.39, s.6; 2006, c.6, s.53