sec.16Assistant returning officer may act through other officers

### 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;