Auditor — eligibility

(1) Only the following are eligible to be an auditor for a leadership contestant:

(a) a person who is a member in good standing of a corporation, association or institute of professional accountants; or

(b) a partnership of which every partner is a member in good standing of a corporation, association or institute of professional accountants.

Auditor — ineligibility

(2) The following persons are ineligible to be an auditor:

(a) an election officer or a member of the staff of a returning officer;

(b) the chief agent of a registered party or an eligible party, or a registered agent of a registered party;

(c) a candidate or their official agent;

(d) an electoral district agent of a registered association;

(e) a leadership contestant or their leadership campaign agent;

(f) a nomination contestant or their financial agent; and

(g) a financial agent of a registered third party.

If partnership appointed as auditor

(3) A person may be appointed as agent for a leadership contestant even if the person is a member of a partnership that has been appointed as an auditor, in accordance with this Act, for the registered party.

2014, c. 12, s. 86; 2018, c. 31, s. 310(F).