Examples of Returning Officer in a sentence
The Council will administer all elections and will appoint a Returning Officer at the commencement of the election period.
Persons seeking election to the Community Council shall be nominated as prescribed in the Scheme and nominations shall be lodged with the Returning Officer by a prescribed time and date.
The Returning Officer is therefore required to introduce procedures in all the polling stations, to enable the checking of such documentation before the elector receives the ballot papers to which they are entitled.
The Board will appoint a Returning Officer who will be responsible for the conduct of the election.
In contrast, Para 4 (4), Schedule 8 of The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 states that the election address for Police and Crime Commissioner elections must be submitted in electronic form unless the Police Area Returning Officer is satisfied that there is good reason for it being submitted in hard copy form.