ELECTORAL REGULATIONS, 2005 ceeding in total the number prescribed in section 21(1), to be their candidate’s election agents and shall forthwith notify in writing the full names and addresses of the persons so appointed to the Chief Elections Officer. 19. Prescribed classes of persons for purposes of sections 55 (2) (b), 62 (2) (a) and 77 (3) (b) of Act (1) Subject to subsection (2), the following persons are prescribed for the purposes of sections 55(2)(b), 62(2)(a) of the Act and 77(3)(b) of the Act as persons who may not be excluded from any polling station and who are entitled to be present at the counting of votes and the opening of postal ballot boxes (a) members of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission; and (b) electoral officers present for the performance of their duties; and (c) an election agent of each candidate in the election concerned; and (d) the chief election agents of each candidate in the case of an election to the office of President; and (e) accredited observers. [Subsection substituted by s.i 32 of 2008] (2) The maximum number of chief election agents, election agents and observers who may be present within any polling station or within one hundred metres of any polling station, and at the counting of votes and the opening of postal ballot boxes, shall be as prescribed in the Second Schedule. (3) A constituency elections officer shall, in addition to the persons entitled in terms of this section to be present at the counting of votes, allow not more than the maximum number of journalists prescribed in the Second Schedule to be present on these occasions. 20. Privileges of observers, chief election agents and election agents at a polling station (1) Observers, chief election agents and election agents shall be permitted to witness— (a) the dipping or marking of voters’ hands in visible indelible ink for voting purposes; [Paragraph amended by s.i. 13 of 2008] (b) the checking of voters’ hands for the presence of visible indelible ink to ensure that they have not voted more than once; (c) the confirmation that each voter appears on the voters’ roll and the issuing to each such voter of only one ballot paper; (d) the confirmation that a line is drawn through the number and surname of the voter on the roll as evidence that the voter has received a ballot-paper; (e) the insertion of the ballot-paper by the voter into the ballot box. (2) The Commission may direct the precise manner in which hands (or, in the absence thereof, other limbs) shall be dipped or marked for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) and (b). [Subsection amended by s.i. 13 of 2008] (3) …. [Subsection repealed by s.i 32 of 2008] 21. Election agents (1) For the purposes of section 93(f) and section 95(1) of the Act, no candidate or his or her chief election agent shall (a) in the case of a candidate for election as a member of Parliament, appoint more than four election agents per polling station in his or her constituency; (b) in the case of a candidate for election to the office of President, appoint more than four election agents per polling station for that election: Provided that at no time shall the number of election agents per candidate within any polling station or within three hundred metres of any polling station exceed the number specified in the Second Schedule. [Subsection amended by s.i 32 of 2008] (2) The Chief Elections Officer shall issue each election agent with an accreditation certificate, and every election agent shall exhibit his or her accreditation certificate to any electoral officer who demands to see it. 22. Election expenses (1) For the purposes of section 93(g) of the Act the number of clerks and messengers that a candidate or his or her election agent shall be permitted to have shall not exceed ten. (2) For the purposes of section 93(h) of the Act the miscellaneous expenses incurred by a candidate or his or her election agent shall not exceed the sum of five hundred thousand United States dollars. [Subsection amended by s.i 87 of 2013] (3) For the purposes of section 93(j) of the Act the total sum expended by a candidate or his or her election agent for obtaining fuel for the purpose of bringing voters to and returning them from the polling station shall not exceed the sum of five hundred thousand United States dollars. [Subsection amended by s.i 87 of 2013] (4) A candidate at an election may pay personal expenses incurred by him or her on account of or in connection with or incidental to that election, for purposes of section 100 of the Act, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand United States dollars. 7