# The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004, Paragraph 26: Keeping of order in assistance and delivery point


(1) It is the presiding officer’s duty to keep order at his assistance and delivery point.
(2) If a person misconducts himself in an assistance and delivery point, or fails to obey the presiding officer’s lawful orders, he may immediately, by the presiding officer’s order, be removed from the assistance and delivery point—
(a) by a constable in or near that assistance and delivery point; or
(b) by any other person authorised in writing by the counting officer to discharge this function,
and the person so removed shall not, without the presiding officer’s permission, again enter that assistance and delivery point that day, or, on the discretion of the counting officer, the person so removed shall not again enter that place, until after the close of the poll.
(3) Any person so removed may, if charged with the commission in the assistance and delivery point of an offence, be dealt with as a person taken into custody by a constable for an offence without a warrant.
(4) The powers conferred by this rule shall not be exercised so as to prevent a voter who is otherwise entitled to mark his ballot paper or complete his security statement at, or deliver his ballot paper or security statement to, an assistance and delivery point from having an opportunity of marking his ballot paper and completing his security statement at, or delivering his ballot paper and security statement to, that place.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110494687/schedule/1/paragraph/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-26
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