{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-35.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/864",
  "legislation_title": "The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/5/rule/35",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Appointment of presiding officers and clerks",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer must appoint and pay—\n(a) a presiding officer to attend at each polling station, and\n(b) such number of clerks as may be necessary for the purposes of the poll or the count or otherwise for the purposes of the election.\n(2) The returning officer must not knowingly appoint, as a presiding officer or clerk—\n(a) an individual candidate,\n(b) a party list candidate, or\n(c) a person who has been employed by or on behalf of an individual candidate or a registered political party in connection with the election.\n(3) The returning officer may preside at a polling station.\n(4) Where the returning officer presides at a polling station, these rules apply to the returning officer so presiding with the necessary modifications as to things done by the returning officer in relation to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer in relation to the returning officer.\n(5) A presiding officer may authorise the clerks to do anything, including asking questions, that the presiding officer is required or authorised by these rules to do, except ordering the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 rule 35 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/5/rule/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-14T03:35:52.324656+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."
}