(1) Subject to the provisions of the following articles of this Act, the Commission shall appoint as many Assistant Electoral Commissioners here in after referred to as "Assistant Commissioners" as may be necessary, to superintend the election in the manner herein prescribed. No Assistant Commissioner shall be appointed to superintend the poll in the electoral division in which he resides or where he habitually exercises his profession or calling.

(2) The Commission may appoint one official referred to as "Polling Place Officer" for each polling place containing more than two polling booths. This officer or officers who will have the exclusive role of coordinator between the Electoral Commission and the Chairpersons, nominated in accordance with article 57(6), to follow instructions of the Commission and they shall in no way take any decisions regarding any situations which may arise, which decisions shall remain the exclusive responsibility of the Electoral Commission.

(3) The Assistant Commissioners shall take the oath of office as set out in the Tenth Schedule to this Act, before one of the Commissioners and shall follow the instructions which they may receive from the Electoral Commission for the discharge of their duties.

(4) Should the extraordinary circumstances referred to in subarticle (3)(g) of article 77 arise, the Commission may, after consultation with the Superintendent of Public Health, appoint such officers from amongst healthcare workers in Malta to assist the Assistant Electoral Commissioners, without assuming in any way any of the duties of an Assistant Electoral Commissioner, at mixed polling places designated in terms of the said sub-article (3)(g), and this always subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission may deem fit, and such officers shall be subject to the same obligations as Assistant Electoral Commissioners with regard to the voting of persons whom they have assisted to vote:

Provided that a person may be appointed as an officer to assist the Assistant Electoral Commissioners even if he is not registered as a voter in the last published Electoral Register, but a person may not be so appointed:

(a) if he is a candidate for election to the House; or

(b) if he is a relative by consanguinity or affinity up to the second degree of any candidate for election to the House; or

(c) to assist with the poll in the electoral division in which he resides; or

(d) to assist with the poll in the electoral division where he habitually exercises his profession or calling; or

(e) if he is manifestly, in the opinion of the Commission after consulting the party delegates, unsuitable or not sufficiently qualified to perform the functions of an officer to assist the Assistant Electoral Commissioners:

Provided that such person as appointed by the Commission shall not be present whilst the voter is voting and in each and every case, every voter shall vote in the presence of the Assistant Electoral Commissioners alone.