L-4.1 - Act respecting electoral lists

Section 228 Disposition versions

1980-08-15

228. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 219; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 12, s. 23; 1966, c. 5, s. 5; 1972, c. 6, s. 53; 1977, c. 11, s. 132; 1979, c. 56, s. 256.

1977-12-31

228. The only persons, besides the deputy returning-officer and the poll-clerk, who shall be permitted, during the time that the polling-station is open, to remain in the room where the votes are given, shall be the director general of elections, the acting director or the deputies, the returning-officer, the election-clerk, any assistant election-clerk, the candidates duly nominated and who have not withdrawn and one agent for each of them.

Each agent, in order to be entitled to act as such, must hold an authorization signed by the candidate whom he represents. Such authorization may be drawn up according to form 47 and shall be delivered to the deputy returning-officer who, on receiving it, shall write thereon over his signature the word “used”.

The first agent holding an authorization signed by the candidate who was declared elected at the last election or by the official candidate of a recognized party whose candidate, at the last general election in which there were candidates of recognized and opposing parties, was one of those who obtained the greatest number of votes or the greatest number of votes after the first, shall be entitled to the same remuneration as a poll-clerk. If the electoral district was established or amended since the last election, it shall be considered for the purposes of this paragraph as that in which the greater part of its territory was comprised.

A list of the agents, mentioning the name of the candidate represented by each, shall be drawn up by each deputy returning-officer in the form 48 and placed for the attention of the returning-officer in the envelope containing the statement of the poll.

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 219; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 12, s. 23; 1966, c. 5, s. 5; 1972, c. 6, s. 53; 1977, c. 11, s. 132.