s.2Definitions and interpretation
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Section 2Part 1 — Preliminary

Definitions and interpretation

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In this Act —
"agent" means a person appointed by a candidate to act on behalf of the candidate for the purposes of an election and includes —
a person appointed as a polling agent or counting agent under section 40(1)(a) or (b); and
a person appointed as an election agent under section 64(1);
"by-election" means an election other than a general election;
"candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate to contest an election;
"counting station" means any room secured by the returning officer for the counting of the votes on polling day;
"current register" means the Register of Electors in force when the revised list is being prepared;
"Deputy Supervisor" means a person appointed as Deputy Supervisor of Elections under section 4;
"election" means an election of a member or members to the Cayman Islands Parliament;
"election agent" means a person appointed by a candidate under section 64;
"election documents" means the documents which the returning officer is required by section 61(1) to transmit to the Supervisor after an election;
"election officer" includes the Supervisor, every registering officer, returning officer, presiding officer, poll clerk or other person having any duty to perform pursuant to this Act to the faithful performance of which duty that person may be sworn;
"elector" means any person who votes or is entitled to vote at an election;
"electoral district" means an electoral district as constituted under section 5;
"electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities, whether digital, analogue or otherwise;
"Form" means the form set out as such in Schedule 2;
"Governor" means the person for the time being holding the office of Governor of the Islands, and includes any person for the time being lawfully performing the functions of that office under section 31 of Schedule 2 to the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [UKSI 1379 of 2009], and, to the extent to which a Deputy appointed under section 34 of Schedule 2 to the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [UKSI 1379 of 2009] is authorised to act, that Deputy;
"mobile station" means a mobile polling station established under section 50(2)(a);
"political party" means a group of persons who have united to contest an election;
"poll book" means the book in Form 1 in which the name and other particulars of every person applying to vote are consecutively entered by the poll clerk as soon as the applicant's right to vote at the polling station has been ascertained and before any such applicant is allowed to vote;
"polling day" means the day fixed for holding the poll at an election;
"polling division" means any polling division constituted under section 6;
"polling station" means any room secured by the returning officer for the taking of the votes on polling day;
"public service" means the civil service and employees of statutory authorities and government companies;
"quarter" means the period of three months including and immediately following the first day of January, April, July and October in each year;
"registration agent" means a person appointed under section 13(8);
"registration date" means the first day of January, April, July or October, as the case may be, next occurring after the coming into force of the last previous Register of Electors or such other date as the Governor may, by Notice published in the Gazette, appoint;
"rejected ballot paper" means a ballot paper which has been handed by the presiding officer to an elector to cast that person's vote but which at the close of the poll has been found in the ballot box unmarked or so improperly marked that in the opinion of the returning officer it cannot be counted;
"returning officer", in relation to an electoral district, means the returning officer and any deputy returning officer appointed in respect of that district by the Governor under section 8;
"revised list" means the list of electors prepared under section 12(1).
"spoiled ballot paper" means a ballot paper which, on polling day, has not been deposited in the ballot box but has been found by the presiding officer to be spoiled or improperly printed, or which has been handed by the presiding officer to an elector to cast that person's vote, and —
has been spoiled in marking by the elector; and
has been handed back to the presiding officer and exchanged for another;
"Supervisor" means the person appointed as Supervisor of Elections under section 3; and
"writ" means the writ for an election.
Where —
any notice, list or any other instrument is required to be published then, unless the contrary intention appears, the publication thereof shall be made by —
posting the same in a conspicuous place on any court house, church, chapel, post office, school-house or such other building in the Islands as in the opinion of the Supervisor is suitable for the purpose, except that in places where there is no such building as aforesaid, such instrument may be posted in a conspicuous place;
transmitting the same by electronic means on a website authorised by the Supervisor; and
publishing the same in a newspaper published and circulating in the Islands; and
any paper, list or report is required to be printed, such paper, list or report may be reproduced and printed by a computer.

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