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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/284",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003",
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  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Admission to polling station",
  "text": "(1) At an Assembly election the presiding officer shall regulate the number of voters to be admitted to the polling station at the same time, and (subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)) shall exclude all other persons except—\n(a) the candidates and their election agents,\n(b) the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station,\n(c) the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station,\n(d) the constables on duty,\n(e) the companions of voters with disabilities,\n(f) in the case of a constituency election, the constituency returning officer, and\n(g) in the case of a regional election, the regional returning officer or the constituency returning officer for the Assembly constituency in which the polling station is situated.\n(2) At a regional election not more than one party list candidate shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same group of party list candidates.\n(3) At an Assembly election not more than one polling agent shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same individual candidate or, at a regional election, on behalf of the same group of party list candidates.\n(4) A constable or person employed by a constituency or regional returning officer shall not be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at his own polling station under the relevant provision of this Order, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to his employment, which shall be in the form set out in the Appendix to Schedule 2 and signed by an officer of police of the rank of inspector or above or by the returning officer, as the case may be.\n(5) Any certificate surrendered under this paragraph shall forthwith be cancelled.",
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