(1) Unless this Act otherwise provides, candidates and candidates’ agents shall have free access to the building where the counting of ballot papers will take place, and to the counting hall, at all times.

(2) Every political party shall moreover have the right to nominate a number of agents equal to ten more than double the number of candidates presented by it to contest the election and such agents shall at all times have access to the said building and to the counting hall at all times. These agents shall henceforth in this Act be referred to as "counting agents".

The list of such agents shall be presented to the Commission at least twenty one days prior to the start of the poll; the Commission shall inform the political parties of all the agents so nominated so that the said political parties may have an opportunity to make representations to the Commission before the same accepts or rejects them; the agents so nominated are to be of good character and acceptable to the Commission.

The list of such agents shall, at least, seven days prior to the start of the poll, be published by the Commission in the Government Gazette indicating the name, address and identity card number of each agent and the party nominating him.

The political parties nominating such agents may up to the Thursday before the poll substitute not more than ten per centum of the number of agents appointed by it and the procedure established in this article shall apply to the nomination, objection and acceptance of the substitute agents.

(3) The party delegates, candidates and counting agents shall be issued with an identity document indicating the details required for election agents and such identity document is to be worn at all times on entry into and inside the building or complex wherein the ballot papers are counted.

Identity documents shall be printed on security paper and shall clearly distinguish between each group of delegates and agents as well as between delegates and agents nominated by one political party and those nominated by other political parties.