I've been chatting, Mr. Mortimer, with our researcher, and I think maybe your interpretation of subparagraph 167(2)(a)(ii) is incorrect. You have said that it replicates and is an unnecessary repetition of something that comes up in subsection 176(1). Subsection 176(1) states that “Every polling station established for polling day shall be open as an advance polling station on the day before polling day”. But subparagraph 167(2)(a)(ii) requires that the returning officer shall give notice in a prescribed form that sets out certain information, and one piece of information is “the name, if any, and the number of each of the polling divisions established for the day before polling day”.
I think those are two different things. One is saying that the station shall be open, and the second one is saying that the officer shall place a notice out for the public stating that the station is open. You can correct me if I've misinterpreted this, but I think, for that reason, that those actually are two different functions that need to be stated separately. Am I incorrect in that?