SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Parliamentary Elections Rules

PART IIIContested Elections

THE POLL

Admission to polling station

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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; and

e

the companions of blind voters.

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 his own polling station under the relevant provision of this Act, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to his employment, which shall be in the prescribed form and signed by the prescribed officer of police or by the returning officer, as the case may be.

4

Any certificate surrendered under this rule shall forthwith be cancelled.