{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/219",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Keeping of order in polling station",
  "text": "(1) It is the presiding officer’s duty to keep order at the officer’s polling station.\n(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—\n(a) by a constable, or\n(b) by any other person authorised in writing by the counting officer to discharge this function.\n(3) A person so removed may not, without the presiding officer’s permission, re-enter the polling station that day.\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/219/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:59.795204+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."
}