The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987

Equipment of polling stations

11.—(1) The returning officer shall provide each presiding officer with such number of ballot boxes and ballot papers as in the returning officer’s opinion may be necessary.

(2) Every ballot box shall be so constructed that the ballot papers can be put in it, but cannot be withdrawn from it, without the box being unlocked.

(3) The returning officer shall provide each polling station with–

(a) materials to enable voters to mark the ballot papers;

(b) instruments for stamping on them the official mark;

(c) copies of the register of electors for the parish or community or such part of it as contains the names of the electors allotted to the station.

(4) A notice in the appropriate form in the Appendix, giving directions for the guidance of voters in voting, shall be printed in conspicuous characters and exhibited inside and outside every polling station.

(5) Where the poll is taken on the question of appointment to any office, there shall be exhibited in every compartment of every polling station the notice “Vote for ... ... ... ... candidates only as [insert name of office]. Put no other mark on the ballot paper, or your vote may not be counted.”.