Office of election agent and sub-agent for individual candidate
40.—(1) Every election agent and every sub-agent shall have an office to which all claims, notices, writs, summonses and legal process and other documents may be sent, and the address of the office shall be—
(a)declared to the appropriate officer at the same time as the appointment of the agent is declared to him; and
(b)stated in the public notice of the name of the agent.
(2) The office of the elections agent or sub-agent shall be within the United Kingdom or, in the case of a candidate standing for election in the combined region, Gibraltar.
(3) Any claim, notice, writ, summons or legal process or other document delivered at the office of the election agent or sub-agent and addressed to him, shall be deemed to have been served on him and every election agent or sub-agent may in respect of any matter connected with the election in which he is acting be sued in any court having jurisdiction at the place where his office is situated.
(4) In this regulation, references to an election agent and sub-agent are to an election agent or sub-agent of an individual candidate.