{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110494687",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Admission to an assistance and delivery point",
  "text": "(1) The presiding officer shall exclude all persons from his assistance and delivery point except—\n(a) a person attending for the purpose of delivery of a ballot paper;\n(b) a person attending for the purpose of marking a ballot paper;\n(c) the companions of voters with disabilities;\n(d) any other person accompanying a person attending under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) that the presiding officer decides to admit;\n(e) the Chief Counting Officer;\n(f) the counting officer;\n(g) the referendum agents;\n(h) the clerks appointed to attend at the assistance and delivery point;\n(i) the constables on duty;\n(j) where there are combined polls, persons entitled to be admitted to the assistance and delivery point at each of the referendums; and\n(k) any person authorised by the Electoral Commission to attend at an assistance and delivery point as a representative of the Commission.\n(2) The presiding officer shall regulate the number of persons to be admitted at the same time to his assistance and delivery point.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Electoral Commission is established by section 1 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110494687/schedule/1/paragraph/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:43.165722+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}