# The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002, Paragraph 36: Appointment of presiding officers and clerks


(1) The constituency returning officer shall appoint and pay a presiding officer to attend at each polling station and such clerks as may be necessary, but he shall not appoint any person who has been employed by or on behalf of a candidate or a registered party in or about the election.
(2) The constituency returning officer may, if he thinks fit, preside at a polling station and the provisions of these Rules relating to a presiding officer shall apply to a constituency returning officer so presiding with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the constituency returning officer to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the constituency returning officer.
(3) A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist him, any act (including the asking of questions) which he is required or authorised by these Rules to do at a polling station except order the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2779/schedule/2/paragraph/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-36
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