70 Effect of default in election agent's appointment
Representation of the People Act 1983 (1983 c 2) | Legislation

70  Effect of default in election agent's appointment

(1)     If no person's name and address is given as required by section 67 above as the election agent of a candidate who remains validly nominated at the latest time for delivery of notices of withdrawals, the candidate shall be deemed at that time to have named himself as election agent and to have revoked any appointment of another person as his election agent.

(2)     If—

(a)     the person whose name and address have been so given as those of the candidate's election agent (not being the candidate himself) dies, and

(b)     a new appointment is not made on the day of the death or on the following day,

the candidate shall be deemed to have appointed himself as from the time of death.

(3)     If the appointment of a candidate's election agent is revoked without a new appointment being made, the candidate himself shall be deemed to have been appointed (or re-appointed) election agent.

[(3A)     The deemed appointment

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