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Rule 25 Challenge of voter or proxyI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

A person must not be prevented from voting by reason only that—

(a)

any petition organiser or polling observer permitted to be present in accordance with rule 21(1) declares that he has reasonable cause to believe that the person has committed an offence of personation, or

(b)

the person is arrested on the grounds that he is suspected of committing or of being about to commit such an offence.

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Commencement

I1

Sch. 3 rule 25 in force at 27.7.2007, see reg. 1(2)