187. Whenever in this division any expression is used, requiring or authorizing any act or thing to be done, or implying that any act or thing may or ought to be done, in the presence of agents of the candidates, such expression shall be deemed to refer to the presence of such agents of the candidates as are authorized to attend, and as have, in fact, attended at the time and place where such act or thing is being done.
The non-attendance of any agents or agent at such time and place shall not, if the act or thing be otherwise duly done, invalidate the act or thing done.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 213.