European Parliament Elections Act 1997
Maintenance of order in polling station.
67. (1) If any person misconducts himself or herself at a polling station or fails to obey the lawful orders of the presiding officer for that station, that person may immediately, by order of the said presiding officer, be removed from the polling station by any member of the or by any other person authorised in writing by the presiding officer to remove the first-mentioned person. A person so removed shall not re-enter the polling station without the permission of the presiding officer.
(2) The presiding officer shall, as far as practicable, ensure that all material which advocates or opposes the candidature of a particular person or persons or of members of a political party is removed from the polling station.
(3) For the purpose of this rule a polling station shall be deemed to include all parts of the building and any land within the curtilage of the building in which the polling station is situate.
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Prospective affecting provision: rule applied by Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004 (15/2004), s. 10(4), not commenced as of date of revision.
Procedure for voting.
10. —(1) Subject to the provisions in the relevant Act or Regulations concerning voting with the assistance of a companion or presiding officer, personation and the right to vote, the presiding officer shall permit an elector, who applies to vote and declares his or her name and address, to vote on a voting machine.
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(3) An elector on receiving permission to vote shall (subject to the provisions concerning voting with the assistance of a companion or presiding officer) go alone to one of the voting machines in the polling station or such one of them as he or she is directed to so go to by the presiding officer and there shall secretly record his or her preferences on the ballot paper displayed on the voting machine and shall then cast his or her vote by pressing the cast vote button on that machine. He or she shall vote without undue delay and shall leave the polling station as soon as he or she has voted.
(4) Where an elector has failed to cast, in accordance with subsection (3), his or her vote and has left the polling station and the presiding officer, accordingly, has reason to believe that the voting machine concerned is still open, the presiding officer shall verify, remotely (by means of the control unit), whether that is the case and, if the machine is open, shall de-activate it. Where an elector fails to leave a voting machine within a reasonable time, the provisions of section 106(1) of the Act of 1992, Rule 67 of the Second Schedule to the Act of 1997 or Article 68 of the Regulations of 1995, as appropriate, shall apply and, where, in such circumstances, the voting machine is still open, the presiding officer shall de-activate it.