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Regulation 27 Keeping of order in polling stationI1

United Kingdom

(1)

It is the presiding officer’s duty to keep order at the officer’s polling station.

(2)

If a person engages in misconduct in a polling station or fails to obey the presiding officer’s lawful orders, the person may immediately, by the presiding officer’s order, be removed from the polling station—

(a)

by a constable, or

(b)

by any other person authorised in writing by the counting officer to discharge this function.

(3)

A person so removed may not, without the presiding officer’s permission, re-enter the polling station that day.

(4)

The powers conferred by this regulation may not be exercised so as to prevent a voter who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity to vote at that station.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 27 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1