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Paragraph 28 Use of schools and public rooms

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

(1)

At an Assembly election the constituency returning officer may use, free of charge, for the purpose of taking the poll—

(a)

a room in a school to which this paragraph applies, or

(b)

a room the expense of maintaining which is payable wholly or mainly out of public funds.

(2)

This paragraph applies to a school maintained or assisted by a local education authority, or a school in respect of which grants are made out of money provided by the Assembly or by Parliament to the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school.

(3)

The constituency returning officer shall make good any damage done to, and defray any expense incurred by the persons having control over, any such room as mentioned above by reason of its being used for the purpose of taking the poll.

(4)

Sub-paragraph (2) shall have effect as if it included a reference to a grant-maintained school.