67 Appointment of election agent
Representation of the People Act 1983 (1983 c 2) | Legislation

Part II The Election Campaign

The election agent

67  Appointment of election agent

(1)     Not later than the latest time for the delivery of notices of withdrawals for an election, a person shall be named by or on behalf of each candidate as the candidate's election agent, and the name and address of the candidate's election agent shall be declared in writing by the candidate or some other person on his behalf to the appropriate officer not later than that time.

[(1A)     Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, the requirements of subsection (1) above in relation to those candidates are that not later than the time there mentioned—

(a)     a person shall be named by or on behalf of the party as the election agent of all of those candidates; and

(b)     the declaration required by that subsection shall be made by or on behalf of the party.]

(2)     A candidate may name himself as election agent, and upon doing so shall, so far as circumstances admit, be subject to the provisions of

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