This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Referendum Question, Date of Referendum Etc.) Order 2010 No. 2837
14.—(1) The counting officer must appoint and pay—
(a)a presiding officer to attend each polling station, and
(b)such clerks as may be necessary for the purposes of the referendum.
(2) An appointment under paragraph (1) must be in writing.
(3) The counting officer may not appoint any person under paragraph (1) who has been employed by or on behalf of a permitted participant in or about the referendum.
(4) The counting officer may, if the counting officer thinks fit, preside at a polling station and the provisions of these Rules relating to a presiding officer apply to a counting officer who so presides with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the counting officer to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the counting officer.
(5) A presiding officer may authorise a clerk appointed in accordance with this rule to do any act (including the asking of questions) which the presiding officer is required or authorised by these Rules to do at a polling station, except ordering the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station.
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