Admission to polling stationsU.K.
34.—(1) The presiding officer must exclude from the polling station everyone except—
(a)voters,
(b)persons under the age of 18 who accompany voters to the polling station,
(c)the police area returning officer and the local returning officer,
(d)the candidates and their election agents,
(e)the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station,
(f)the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station,
(g)persons who are entitled to attend by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the 2000 Act M1,
(h)the constables on duty, and
(i)the companions of voters with disabilities.
(2) The presiding officer must regulate the total number of voters and persons under the age of 18 who accompany them to be admitted to the polling station at the same time.
(3) Not more than one polling agent may be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same candidate.
(4) A constable or a person employed by a local returning officer may be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at the polling station allotted under these rules only on production and surrender of a certificate (in these rules referred to as “a certificate as to employment on duty on the day of the poll”) that—
(a)confirms that the person is a constable, or as the case be, is employed by a local returning officer,
(b)is in Form 17 set out in Part 8 of this Schedule or a form to like effect, and
(c)is signed by an officer of police of or above the rank of inspector or, as the case may be, by the local returning officer.
(5) A certificate surrendered under this rule must forthwith be cancelled.
[F1(6) In this rule, a reference to a constable includes a person designated as a community support officer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (police powers for employees).]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3 rule 34(6) inserted (6.4.2014) by The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/921), arts. 1(5), 35 (with art. 1(5))
Marginal Citations
M12000 c.22. Sections 6A to 6F were inserted by section 29 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22) and amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13).