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30.—(1) The presiding officer must exclude all persons from the polling station except—
(a)voters;
(b)persons under the age of 18 who accompany voters to the polling station;
(c)the candidates and their election agents (if appointed);
(d)the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station;
(e)the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station;
(f)persons who are entitled to attend by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 M1;
(g)the constables on duty;
(h)the companions of voters with disabilities; and
(i)persons entitled to be admitted to the polling station at a relevant election or referendum with which the poll at the parish or community election is combined.
(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 shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same candidate.
(4) A constable or person employed by a returning officer must not be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at his own polling station allotted to him under these Rules, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to his employment which must be in the form in the Appendix, 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.
(5) Any certificate surrendered under this rule must forthwith be cancelled.
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M1Sections 6A to 6F of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.41) were inserted by section 29 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22).
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