(1) The Commission shall appoint an election clerk for each electoral district who shall receive such fee as may be prescribed for each election in that district.
(2) Upon his or her appointment, the election clerk shall take an oath in the form set out as Form 3 in Schedule 3 and shall transmit such oath to the returning officer.
(3) If at any time between the issue of a writ for an election and the declaration of the result of that election the returning officer dies or becomes incapable of performing his or her duties as such, the election clerk shall report the fact to the Commission and shall discharge all the duties and exercise all the powers of the returning officer until some other returning officer is appointed or the returning officer ceases to be incapable of performing his or her duties, as the case may be.