(1) The electoral roll for each Municipality shall be prepared and revised by a Municipal Electoral Registration Officer.
(2) A Municipal Electoral Registration Officer may, subject to any prescribed restrictions, employ such persons as he thinks fit for the preparation and revision of the electoral roll for the Municipality.
7. Every Assistant Municipal Electoral Registration Officer shall, subject to the direction and control of the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer, be competent to perform any of the functions of the Municipal Electoral Registration Officer.
8. Subject to the superintendence, direction and control of the Commission, the District Municipal Election Officer shall supervise the conduct of all elections within his jurisdiction. The District Municipal Election Officer shall perform such other functions as may be entrusted to him by the Commission.
9. Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 6 of the West Bengal State Election Commission Act, 1994, there shall be a Municipal Returning Officer for every constituency for every election to fill a seat or seats in a Municipality:
Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the Commission from designating or nominating the same person to be Municipal Returning Officer for more than one constituency.
Officers.
Coordination and supervision.
Preparation and revision of electoral roll.
Functions of Assistant Municipal Electoral Registration Officer.
General duties of District Municipal Election Officer.
Municipal Returning Officer.
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General duty of the Municipal Returning Officer.
Provision of polling stations for constituencies.
(Chapter IL—Officers.—Sections 10-13.)
10. Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 6 of the West Bengal State Election Commission Act, 1994, every Assistant Municipal Returning Officer shall, subject to the control of the Municipal Returning Officer, be competent to perform any of the functions of the Municipal Returning Officer.
11. It shall be the general duty of the Municipal Returning Officer at any election to do all such acts and things as may be necessary for effectually conducting the election in the manner provided by this Act or the rules or the orders made thereunder.
12. The Municipal Returning Officer shall, subject to such directions as may be issued by the Commission in this behalf, provide a sufficient number of polling stations for every constituency and shall publish, in such manner as the Commission may direct, a list showing the polling stations so provided and the polling areas or groups of voters for which they have respectively been provided.
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Appointment 13. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 6 of of Presiding the West Bengal State Election Commission Act, 1994, there shall be a Officers and Polling Presiding Officer and such number of Polling Officer or Officers for Officers for each polling station as the Municipal Returning Officer thinks necessary:
polling stations. Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall prevent the Municipal Returning Officer from appointing the same person to be the Presiding Officer for more than one polling station in the same premises:
Provided further that if a Polling Officer is absent from the polling station, the Presiding Officer may appoint any person who is present at the polling station, other than a person who has been employed by or on behalf of, or has been otherwise working for, a candidate in or about the election, to be the Polling Officer during the absence of the former officer, and inform the Municipal Returning Officer accordingly.
(2) A Polling Officer shall, if so directed by the Presiding Officer, perform all or any of the functions of a Presiding Officer under this Act or the rules or the orders made thereunder.
(3) If the Presiding Officer, owing to illness or other unavoidable cause, is obliged to absent himself from the polling station, his functions shall be performed by such Polling Officer as has been previously authorised by the Municipal Returning Officer to perform such functions during any such absence.
(4) Any reference in this Act to the Presiding Officer shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include a reference to any person performing any functions which he is authorised to perform under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3), as the case may be.
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(Chapter IL—Officers.—Sections 14, 15.—Chapter 111.—Electoral rolls for Municipalities.—Sections 16-20.)
14. It shall be the general duty of the Presiding Officer at a polling General duty station to keep order thereat and to see that the Polling fairly taken. of the Presiding Officer.
15. It shall be the duty of the Polling Officer at a polling station to Duties of a assist the Presiding Officer for such polling station in the performance Polling of his functions. Officer.
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Electoral rolls for Municipalities
16. Subject to the provisions of section 5 of the West Bengal State Election Commission Act, 1994, the electoral roll for every Municipality shall consist of the electoral rolls for all the constituencies comprised within the Municipality.