(1) The number of polling agents that may be appointed shall be one agent and two relief agents.
(2) Every such appointment shall be made in form 2 and shall be made over to the polling agent for production at the polling station.
(3) No polling agent shall be admitted into the polling station unless he has delivered to the Presiding Officer the instrument of his appointment under sub-rule (2) after duly completing and signing before the Presiding Officer the declaration contained therein.
39A Appointment of election agent .- A candidate at an election may appoint an election agent in Form 2A and a notice of such appointment shall be given by forwarding the same in duplicate to the Returning Officer, who shall return one copy thereof to the election agent after affixing thereon his seal and signature in token of his approval of the appointment.
39B Appointment of counting agent.- (1) A contesting candidate or his election agent may appoint not more than one counting agent in respect of each counting table at the place or at each of the places fixed for counting, to be present as his agents at the time of counting of votes of the ward in which he is a candidate.
(2) Every appointment of counting agent shall be made in Form 2B and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Presiding Officer where the counting is to be made at the polling station itself and to the Returning Officer, in cases where the counting of all the votes polled at all the polling stations of a ward is to be made at one place. Another copy shall be made over to the counting agent for production before the Presiding Officer or the Returning Officer, as the case may be, not later than an hour before the time fixed for counting of votes.
(3) No counting agent shall be admitted into the place fixed for counting unless he has delivered to the Presiding Officer or the Returning Officer, as the case may be, the second copy of his appointment under sub-rule (2) after duly completing and signing the declaration contained therein and receiving from the Presiding Officer or the Returning Officer an authority for entry into the place fixed for counting.