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Section 13 Rate-collectors may be summoned to assist at the election.

United Kingdom

The churchwardens may summon the rate-collectors to attend them on the said day of annual election, in order to assist them in ascertaining that the persons presenting themselves to vote are parishioners rated to the relief of the poor of the said parish, and duly qualified to vote at the said election.

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Act repealed (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (1.6.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(2), Sch. 4 Pt.I;Instrument dated 27.5.1992 made by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.