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1. For the purpose of this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—
“agent” includes the election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent's place;
“election rules” means the local elections rules in Schedule 5 to the Act of 1962, as substituted by Schedule 1;
“issue” includes the original and any subsequent issue;
“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;
“postal voter” means a person entitled to vote by post at an election as an absent voter or as a proxy;
“returning officer” means the Chief Electoral Officer provided that, in respect of any function that Officer has delegated to a deputy returning officer (within the meaning of Article 9(2) of the Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972), it means the deputy returning officer acting under the supervision of the Chief Electoral Officer.
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