Officers discharging electoral functions

1. For the purposes of this Chapter, public officers are all persons who are be to be treated as such under the Criminal Code, all persons who discharge a public duty relating to elections and in particular chairmen and members of Electoral Commissions, as well as presiding officers, members and polling controllers at polling stations’ bureaus and their respective replacements.

2. For the same purposes the Electoral Register -and authorized copies thereof-, minutes of proceedings, lists, certificates, counterfoil book sheets and appointment credentials of persons who are to take part in the election process, and any documents delivered by persons entrusted with issue of the same by this Act, are deemed to be official documents.