Constituency candidates, individual regional candidates, their election agents and the election agent of each party standing nominated at the Scottish Parliament regional election can appoint agents to observe the poll and the verification and count.1
Postal vote agents
Constituency candidates, individual regional candidates and the election agent of each party standing nominated at the Scottish Parliament regional election can appoint agents to observe the postal vote opening.2
Requirement of secrecy
You as are responsible for receiving the notifications of appointment of these agents and you must ensure that all appointed agents are given a copy of the relevant secrecy requirements for opening of postal votes, the poll and the count.3
You can find secrecy requirements in the agents section of our resource page.
You should ensure that candidates and agents are reminded of the procedure for appointing such agents and the deadline that applies for the notification of such appointments.