Keeping of order in polling station
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22(1)It is the presiding officer’s duty to keep order at the officer’s polling station.
(2)If a person engages in misconduct in a polling station or fails to obey the presiding officer’s lawful orders, the person may immediately, by the presiding officer’s order, be removed from the polling station—
(a)by a constable in or near that station, or
(b)by any other person authorised in writing by the counting officer to discharge this function.
(3)A person so removed may not, without the presiding officer’s permission, re-enter the polling station that day.
(4)The powers conferred by this rule may not be exercised so as to prevent a voter who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity to vote at that station.