57. (1) The local returning officer shall appoint a presiding officer to preside at each polling station and may also appoint a poll clerk or clerks to assist each presiding officer. Any such appointment may be revoked at any time by the local returning officer and where the appointment revoked is the appointment of a presiding officer, the local returning officer shall forthwith appoint a fresh presiding officer to preside at the relevant polling station.

(2) The local returning officer shall, on request, permit a person in respect of whom the officer is satisfied that the person has a bona fide interest in the European election either as a candidate or as a prospective candidate, or the agent of such a person, to inspect the list of persons to whom the local returning officer has offered, or proposes to offer, appointments as presiding officers or poll clerks.

(3) A presiding officer shall keep order at the station, regulate the number of European electors to be admitted at a time and shall exclude all other persons except those authorised by rule 59 to be present in the station.

(4) The presiding officer may do by a clerk appointed to assist him or her any act which the presiding officer is required or authorised to do by this Schedule, except ordering the arrest, exclusion or ejection from the polling station of any person.

(5) The local returning officer or a person appointed by the local returning officer under paragraph (6) may perform all or any of the functions of a presiding officer and while so doing shall be subject to the provisions of this Schedule in like manner as if the officer or person had been appointed a presiding officer.

(6) The local returning officer may appoint a person to act as his or her representative in a polling place to carry out such duties as the local returning officer may assign to that person.