Rule 29 Keeping of order in stationI1

Scotland

(1)

It is the presiding officer’s duty to keep order at the polling station.

(2)

If a person commits a misconduct in a polling station, or fails to obey the presiding officer’s lawful orders, such person may immediately, by the presiding officer’s order, be removed from the polling station—

(a)

by a constable in or near that station; or

(b)

by any other person authorised in writing by the returning officer to remove such person,

and the person so removed shall not, without the presiding officer’s permission, again enter the polling station during that day.

(3)

Any person so removed may, if charged with the commission in the polling station of an offence, be dealt with as a person taken into custody by a constable for an offence without a warrant.

(4)

The powers conferred by this rule shall not be exercised so as to prevent a voter who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity of voting at that station.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 1 rule 29 in force at 10.11.2011 except for the purposes of any election to be held on or before 2.5.2012, see art. 1(1)

Notes on Schedule 1

Modifications

C1: Sch. 1 modified (16.12.2015) by The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/425), art. 1(1), sch. 5 Pt. 3 (with art. 1(2))