Paragraph 25 Appointment of presiding officers and clerks
The CRO must appoint and pay a presiding officer to attend at each polling station and such clerks and technical assistants as may be necessary for the purposes of the election, but he must not appoint any person who has been employed by or on behalf of a candidate in or about the election.
The CRO may, if he thinks fit, preside at a polling station and the provisions of this Part relating to a presiding officer apply to a CRO so presiding with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the CRO to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the CRO.
A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist him, any act (including the asking of questions) which he is required or authorised by this Part to do at a polling station F1except—
order the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station,
refuse to deliver a ballot paper under rule 36(3) or rule 38(1E) (including that rule as applied by rule 39, 40 or 41), or
resolve doubts over identity as mentioned in rule 38(1F) (including that paragraph as applied by rule 39, 40 or 41).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in Sch. 1 rule 25(3) substituted (with application in accordance with rule 1(3)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Voter Identification (Principal Area, Parish and Greater London Authority Elections) (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1397), rules 1(1), 12(4)