66. (1) Where a presiding officer has reasonable cause to believe that any person who applies for or has applied for a ballot paper is committing or has committed personation or an offence under rule 102 the presiding officer may, before such person has left the polling station, direct a member of the Garda Síochána to arrest the person on the charge of having committed personation or an offence under the said rule 102, as may be appropriate, and the member of the Garda Síochána shall comply with such direction.

(2) If at the time a person applies for a ballot paper at a European election, or after the person has applied for a ballot paper and before that person has left the polling station, a personation agent declares to the presiding officer that the agent believes and undertakes in writing to prove that the applicant has committed personation or an offence under rule 102, the presiding officer may direct a member of the Garda Síochána to arrest the applicant on the charge of having committed personation or an offence under the said rule 102, as may be appropriate, and the member of the Garda Síochána shall comply with such direction.

(3) Any member of the Garda Síochána may, without any warrant, arrest any person who, the said member has reasonable cause to believe, is committing, or has committed, personation or an offence under rule 102.

(4) Any arrest authorised by this rule may be made at any place whether in a polling station or out of such a station.

(5) No action or other proceeding shall lie against a presiding officer in respect of the arrest on the officer’s direction, without malice, of any person on a charge of having committed personation or an offence under rule 102.