Qualification of persons to be appointed as party or official agents
102 Qualification of persons to be appointed as party or official agents
(cf section 27 EFED Act)
The following persons are not qualified to be appointed as party agents or official agents—
a corporation,
a person who is not enrolled to vote at State elections,
a person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 30 months or more or has been convicted of an indictable offence, an offence against this Act, an electoral offence, or, within the previous 10 years, an offence committed as an adult involving fraud or dishonesty,
a person whom the Electoral Commission determines is not a fit and proper person to be such an agent,
a person who has not completed the training prescribed by the regulations for appointment as such an agent (unless the person is of a class of persons recognised by the regulations as a person eligible for appointment without further training).
A person may be appointed as the official agent of more than one person or entity.
The Electoral Commission may cancel the registration under this Part of a person as a party agent or an official agent if the person is no longer qualified to be appointed as such an agent.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
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