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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-3/paragraph-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1917",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Provision of polling stations",
  "text": "(1) The local returning officer must provide a sufficient number of polling stations and, subject to the following provisions of this rule, must allot the electors to the polling stations in whatever manner the officer thinks most convenient.\n(2) One or more polling stations may be provided in the same room.\n(3) The polling station to which electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the voting area are allotted must, in the absence of special circumstances, be in the parliamentary polling place for that district unless that place is outside the voting area.\n(4) The local returning officer must provide each polling station with however many compartments are necessary in which the voters can mark their votes screened from observation.\n(5) The local returning officer must ensure that each polling station contains an area in which voters can produce proof of identity in private.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 rule 26(5) inserted (16.1.2023) by The Voter Identification Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1382), regs. 1(3), 60(2) (with reg. 1(6)(7))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/3/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:32.209917+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."
}