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Local Government Electoral Act 2011
sec.16Assistant returning officer may act through other officers
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### sec.16 Assistant returning officer may act through other officers
If—
an assistant returning officer may, under this Act, do a thing; and
the assistant returning officer authorises a presiding officer or an issuing officer to do the thing; and
the presiding officer or the issuing officer does the thing;
the thing is taken to have been done by the assistant returning officer.
- (a) an assistant returning officer may, under this Act, do a thing; and
- (b) the assistant returning officer authorises a presiding officer or an issuing officer to do the thing; and
- (c) the presiding officer or the issuing officer does the thing;