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Rule 20 Notification of requirement of secrecy in respect of polling stationsI1

England and Wales

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

The relevant returning or counting officer must make such arrangements as he thinks fit to ensure that every person attending at a polling station (otherwise than for the purpose of voting or assisting a voter or proxy with disabilities to vote or as a constable on duty there) has been given a copy in writing of the provisions of subsections (1), (3) and (6) of section 66 of the 1983 Act, as applied by Schedule 4.f1

Annotations

Commencement

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Sch. 5 rule 20 in force at 27.7.2007, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

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Subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 66 of the 1983 Act were amended by paragraphs 69, 82, 86(b) and 96 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22); subsection (6) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50).