# The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004, Paragraph 22: Appointment of presiding officers and clerks


(1) The counting officer shall appoint and pay—
(a) a presiding officer to attend at each assistance and delivery point; and
(b) such clerks as may be necessary for the purposes of the referendum,
but he shall not appoint any person who has been employed by or on behalf of a permitted participant in or about the Regional Assembly referendum or any local government referendum held in that region on the same date.
(2) The persons appointed pursuant to paragraph (1)(b) shall include such persons (if any) as may be necessary to provide, maintain or repair any computer hardware or software, data, equipment or other services in use for the purposes of the referendum.
(3) The counting officer may, if he thinks fit, preside at an assistance and delivery point and the provisions of these Rules relating to a presiding officer shall apply to a counting officer so presiding with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the counting officer to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the counting officer.
(4) The counting officer may, if he thinks fit, perform the functions of a supervising clerk under rule 30, at a contingency delivery point.
(5) A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist him, any act which he is required or authorised by these Rules to do at an assistance and delivery point, except order the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from that place.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110494687/schedule/1/paragraph/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-22
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