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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-41",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2779",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/41",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Admission to polling station",
  "text": "(1) The presiding officer shall regulate the number of voters to be admitted to the polling station at the same time, and shall exclude all other persons except–\n(a) the candidates;\n(b) the election agent of any candidate for return as a constituency member, or of any individual candidate for return as a regional member, or of any registered party standing nominated;\n(c) the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station;\n(d) the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station;\n(e) the constables on duty;\n(f) the companions of voters with disabilities; and\n(g) the returning officer and members of his staff.\n(2) Not more than one polling agent shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same candidate or of the same registered party.\n(3) Not more than one candidate on a registered party’s regional list shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station.\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 Q set out in the Appendix and signed by an officer of police of the rank of Inspector or above or by the returning officer in question, as the case may be.\n(5) Any certificate surrendered under this rule shall forthwith be cancelled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2114",
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      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
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  "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."
}