21(1)Where the Chief Electoral Officer has directed that an enumeration be conducted, the returning officer responsible for each affected electoral district or polling division shall by writing in the prescribed form appoint such persons as enumerators as are necessary to carry out the enumeration, and such persons shall, before acting, take the oath in the prescribed form.

21(2)Authorized officers of the registered district association in an electoral district associated with the government party and the party of the official opposition may file or cause to be filed with the returning officer for that electoral district, before noon on the second day next following the date of the writ, a list of nominees for the office of enumerator, and the returning officer for that electoral district in appointing enumerators for a polling division shall, as far as possible, select enumerators from such lists.

21(3)Where two enumerators are appointed to enumerate a polling division or a part of a polling division, they shall, with relation to every process of the preparation of the list of electors, act jointly and not individually, and they shall report forthwith to the returning officer who appointed them the fact and details of any disagreement between them, whereupon the returning officer shall decide the matter of difference and shall communicate his decision to the enumerators who shall accept and apply it as if it had been originally their own.

21(4)When making a house-to-house visitation, pursuant to the provisions of section 26 of this Act, each enumerator shall wear and prominently display an enumerator’s badge provided by the Chief Electoral Officer as evidence of the enumerator’s authority to register the names of electors residing in the polling division.

21(5)An enumerator wearing such badge at any other time, or any person wearing such a badge without authority, or wearing any other badge purporting to be an enumerator’s badge, is guilty of an offence.