3. If the independent candidate who would have been entitled to recommend the deputy returning officer according to the criteria in section 2 is not a candidate or if the party whose candidate would have been entitled to make such a recommendation does not put up a candidate, the deputy returning officer shall be recommended by the candidate who would have been entitled to recommend the poll clerk.
The poll clerk shall then be recommended by the candidate of the authorized party that came next in order after reapportionment.