50.-(1) A Returning Officer shall within fourteen days
before polling day or such other period to be directed by the
Commission, issue to candidates or political parties names and
addresses of polling stations.
(2) For the purpose of subregulation (1), a political party
participating in an election shall, subject to the provisions of the
Act and not later than seven days before election day, inform in
writing the Returning Officer the names and addresses of polling
agents and their respective polling stations.
(3) The Returning Officer shall, after receiving the
information under subregulation (2), inform the presiding
officers or polling assistants of the polling agents authorized to
be at each polling station.
(4) The polling agent shall, seven days before polling
day, take an oath of secrecy before the Returning Officer in Form
No. 6 as prescribed in the First Schedule to these Regulations.
(5) No polling agent shall be allowed to be at the polling
station without having taken an oath of secrecy.
(6) Subject to subregulation (2), the information of a
polling agent shall be accompanied by -
(a) two recent coloured passport size photographs;
(b) a copy of national identity card;
(c) a copy of voters’ card; or
(d) a copy of the passport that provides for personal
particulars.
(7) The Returning Officer shall prepare a list of polling
agents for each polling station and attach introductory letters,
photographs or copies of documents named under subregulation
(6) to serve as an introduction of polling agents at the polling stations.
(8) The introduction of polling agents under
subregulation (7) shall be sufficient evidence of identity of the
polling agents.
(9) Where a poling agent is introduced in terms of
subregulation (8)-
(a) no copy of Form No. 6 shall be issued for the
purpose of identification; and
(b) the production of any other form of identification at
the polling station shall not be required.
(10) Without prejudice to the preceding provisions,
where a political party has already appointed a polling agent in
respect of a polling station for presidential election, the political
party shall not appoint another polling agent at the same polling
station within the ward where there is a parliamentary election
candidate or a Councilor’s election candidate of the same party
contesting an election.