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Officers not to act as agents for candidates.
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39.—No local returning officer at a presidential election, nor his deputy, nor any partner or clerk of either of them, shall act as agent for any candidate at that election in the management or conduct of his election, and if any such returning officer, his deputy, the partner or clerk of either of them, shall so act he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
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