25. Section 203 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsections:
“(3) Where a political party ceases to be registered under Part VII and immediately before ceasing to be registered a person held office under subsection (1), the person shall be taken to continue in that office for the purposes of this Part as if the party continued to be registered.
“(4) A person taken to be a reporting agent in accordance with subsection (3) or 204 (1A) shall be taken to continue in that office until the person, with the consent of the Commissioner, resigns from that office.”.