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Section 67, The Public Elections Act, 2022
Status not yet checkedThe Public Elections Act, 2022, Sierra Leone
(1) In conducting an election under this Act, the Chairmanof the Electoral Commission shall be the National Returning Officer.
(2) The Electoral Commission shall appoint -
(a) a Regional Returning Officer for each electoral
region;
(b) a District Returning Officer for each electoral
district; and
(c) such number of Assistant Returning Officers
as may be required.
(b) generally drawing the attention of the
Presiding Officer to irregularities in the
procedure at a polling station.
(2) Notice in writing of the appointment, stating the
names and addresses of the Polling Agents, together with the polling
stations to which they have been assigned, shall be given by each
political party or independent candidate, as the case may be, to the
District Returning Officer not later than 3 days before the day
appointed for the election and before 4 O'clock in the afternoon of
that day and the District Returning Officer shall inform the Presiding
Officer accordingly.
(3) Where a Polling Agent dies or becomes incapable of
acting as such, the political party or independent candidate concerned
may appoint another Polling Agent in his place and shall give to the
Presiding Officer due notice in writing of the name and address of the
Polling Agent so appointed.
(4) A Polling Agent shall not be admitted into a polling
station if notice of his appointment has not been given to the Presiding
(5) A Polling Agent admitted to a polling station shall
not-
(a) interfere with the voting at that station, except
as provided in this Act;
(b) do any form of canvassing at the polling
station or display anything which indicates
that he is a representative of a particular
political party or candidate and the Polling
Agent shall be obliged to display his
identification card provided to him by the
Electoral Commission.
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