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The Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums)(England) Regulations 2012
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- Sch. 3 rule 21(1)(ba) inserted by S.I. 2023/1225 reg. 6(2)(a)
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Appointment of presiding officers and clerksE+W
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15.—(1) The relevant returning or counting officer must appoint and pay a presiding officer to attend at each polling station and such clerks as may be necessary for the purposes of the referendum.
(2) The relevant returning or counting officer may, if he or she thinks fit, preside at a polling station and the provisions of these Rules relating to a presiding officer shall apply to a relevant returning or counting officer so presiding with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the relevant returning or counting officer to the presiding officer or by the presiding officer to the relevant returning or counting officer.
(3) A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist him or her, any act (including the asking of questions) which he or she is required or authorised by these Rules to do at a polling station [F1except—.
(a)order the arrest, exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station,
(b)refuse to deliver a ballot paper under rule 26(3) or rule 28(1E) (including that rule as applied by rule 29, 30 or 31), or
(c)resolve doubts over identity as mentioned in rule 28(1F) (including that paragraph as applied by rule 29, 30 or 31).]
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F1Words in Sch. 5 rule 15(3) substituted (16.1.2023) by The Voter Identification Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1382), regs. 1(3), 50(5) (with reg. 1(6)(7))
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