8.—(1) The Dublin City Manager and Town Clerk shall be the returning officer at every election of commercial members of the City Council.
(2) The Dublin City Manager and Town Clerk may by writing under his hand appoint a fit person to be deputy returning officer for any particular election of commercial members of the City Council and may so appoint such person to be such deputy returning officer for all the purposes of such election or for any one or more of such purposes.
(3) A deputy returning officer appointed under this section shall, in relation to the purposes for which he is so appointed, have all the powers, duties, and liabilities of the returning officer under this Act.
