# Commissioners Clauses Act 1847, Section 27: Returning officer may summon rate collectors, &c. to attend the election. Penalty on rate collector, &c. for neglect.


If the qualification of the electors of the commissioners depend upon the rates payable by such electors, the returning officer may summon the overseers or inspectors of the poor, collectors, and other officers employed in the assessment or collection of the rates to attend the election, in order to assist in ascertaining that the persons presenting themselves to vote, or who have voted, are or were duly qualified to vote at such election; and such overseers or inspectors, rate collectors, or other officers shall attend with the rates and such other documents necessary for the purpose aforesaid as may be in their custody or power, at such places and at such times as the returning officer may direct, and shall answer all such questions as any presiding officer at the poll shall put to them respecting the title of any person to vote at the election; and any overseer or inspector, rate collector, or other officer who shall wilfully neglect or fail to perform the duties hereby imposed upon him shall for such neglect or failure be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty poundslevel 2 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/16/section/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-27
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