{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3304",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Admission to polling station",
  "text": "(1) The presiding officer must exclude all persons from the polling station except—\n(a) voters;\n(b) persons under the age of 18 who accompany voters to the polling station;\n(ba) persons aged 18 or over returning a postal ballot paper or postal voting statement by hand in accordance with rule 45(4)(b);\n(c) the candidates and their election agents;\n(d) the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station;\n(e) the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station;\n(f) persons who are entitled to attend by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;\n(g) the constables on duty; and\n(h) the companions of voters with disabilities.\n(2) The presiding officer must regulate the total number of voters and persons under the age of 18 who accompany them to be admitted to the polling station at the same time.\n(3) Not more than one polling agent shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same candidate.\n(4) A constable or person employed by a returning officer must not be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at his own polling station allotted to him under these Rules, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to his employment which must be in the form in the Appendix, or a form, to the like effect, and signed by an officer of police of or above the rank of inspector or by the returning officer, as the case may be.\n(5) Any certificate surrendered under this rule must forthwith be cancelled.\n(6) In this rule, a reference to a constable includes a person designated as a community support officer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (police powers for employees).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 30(1)(ba) inserted (13.12.2023) by The Overseas Electors, Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1233), rules 1(2), 3(2)(a) (with rule 1(3)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 30(6) inserted (6.4.2014 with effect in accordance with rule 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/494), rules 1(2), 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 6A to 6F of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.41) were inserted by section 29 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3304/schedule/2/paragraph/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:11.237089+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."
}