26. Section 204 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1A) Where a political party ceases to be registered under Part VII and there is no person taken to be the reporting agent in accordance with subsection 203 (3), the person who was the registered officer immediately before the party ceased to be registered shall be taken to be the reporting agent in relation to the political party for the purposes of this Part as if the party continued to be registered.”.