46. Subject to the provisions of section 83, during the election period or during the annual enumeration period, the office of the returning-officer must remain open from nine hours until twenty-one hours. On polling-day the returning-officer or the election-clerk must stay at such office from eight hours until twenty-two hours.
R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 45; 1972, c. 6, s. 15; 1975, c. 8, s. 9.