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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111014639",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Appointment of presiding officers and clerks",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer shall appoint and pay—\n(a) a presiding officer to attend at each polling station; and\n(b) such clerks as may be necessary for the purposes of the election,\nbut shall not appoint any person who has been employed by or on behalf of a candidate in or about the election.\n(2) The returning officer may preside at a polling station and the provisions of these rules relating to a presiding officer shall apply to a returning officer so presiding with the necessary modifications as to things done by the returning officer to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the returning officer.\n(3) A presiding officer may authorise the clerks appointed to assist such presiding officer to do any act (including the asking of questions) which such presiding officer is required or authorised by these rules to do at a polling station, except order the exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111014639/schedule/1/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:37:01.721435+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."
}