The Scottish Local Government Elections Rules 2002

Admission to polling station

25.—(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–

(a) the candidates and their election agents;

(b) the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station;

(c) the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station;

(d) the constables on duty;

(e) the companions of voters with disabilities; and

(f) the returning officer and the returning officer’s staff.

(2) Not more than one polling agent shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same candidate.

(3) A constable or person employed by a returning officer shall not be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at the polling station allotted under these Rules, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to such employment which shall be in the form in the Appendix to this Schedule, or a form to the like effect, and signed by an officer of police of or above the rank of inspector or by the returning officer, as the case may be.

(4) Any certificate surrendered under this rule shall forthwith be cancelled.