13(1)Section 68 (nomination of sub-agent at parliamentary election for a county constituency) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1) (appointment of sub-agent for part of constituency)—
(a)after “In the case of” there shall be inserted “(a)”;
(b)after “county constituency” there shall be inserted “, or
(b)an Authority election,”; and
(c)after “part of the constituency” there shall be inserted “or electoral area”.
(3)In subsection (2) (powers, acts and defaults of the sub-agent), after “constituency”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be inserted “or electoral area”.
(4)After subsection (4) (vacation or revocation of appointment of sub-agent) there shall be inserted—
“(4A)Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election—
(a)the election agent for those candidates must, if he appoints a sub-agent for any part of the electoral area in the case of any of those candidates, appoint the same person as sub-agent for that part of the electoral area in the case of all of the candidates; and
(b)any such appointment may only be revoked in respect of all of the candidates.”
(5)In subsection (5) (declaration to specify the part of the constituency for which the sub-agent is appointed) after “constituency” there shall be inserted “or electoral area”.
(6)The sidenote to the section accordingly becomes “Nomination of sub-agent at parliamentary or Authority elections.”