Constituency Returning Officer

(1) The Constituency Returning Officers and their deputies shall be appointed before each election. The appointment shall be made at the earliest date on which delegates’ assemblies may be convened pursuant to Selection 21 subsection (3) of the Federal Elec-tions Act in order to nominate constituency candidates and, at the latest, as soon as possible after the announcement of the date of the general election. The appointing agency shall notify the Land Returning Officer and the Federal Returning Officer of the names and addresses of their offices, with telecommunication numbers, and make them public.

(2) The Constituency Returning Officer and his or her deputies shall carry out the func-tions of their offices even after the general election, but not beyond the end of the legis-lative term.