E-3.2 - Election Act

Section 260 Disposition versions

1985-03-13

260. An elector who declares under oath that he is unable to mark his ballot paper himself by reason of an infirmity or because he cannot read, may be assisted by either the deputy returning officer or the poll clerk in the presence of the representatives, or by an elector of the same electoral division in the presence of the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk, who declares under oath that he has not assisted another elector during the polling and that he will not disclose the name of the candidate for whom the elector has voted in his presence. In either case, an indication shall be made of it in the poll book.

The oath shall be made in the form prescribed by regulation.

1984, c. 51, s. 260.