Paragraph 27 Appointment of presiding officers and polling clerks

(1)

The local returning officer must appoint and pay—

(a)

a presiding officer to attend at each polling station, and

(b)

however many clerks are necessary for the purposes of the election.

(2)

The local returning officer must not appoint any person who has been employed by or on behalf of a candidate in the PCC election.

(3)

The local returning officer may, if the officer thinks fit, preside at a polling station.

(4)

In a case within paragraph (3), the provisions of these rules relating to the presiding officer apply to the local returning officer so presiding, with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the local returning officer to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the local returning officer.

(5)

A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist the presiding officer, any act (including the asking of questions) which the presiding officer is required or authorised by these rules to do at a polling station except order the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station.