1987 Ed.]
Electoral Provisions (Procedure) Regulations
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[Subsidiary]
has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at a polling station; or
(b) communicate to any person any information obtained at the counting of the votes, as to the candidate for whom any vote is given on any particular ballot paper.
(2) No person shall-
(a) interfere with or attempt to interfere with an elector when recording his vote;
(b) otherwise obtain or attempt to obtain in a polling station information as to the candidate for whom an elector in that station is about to vote or has voted;
(c) communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in a polling station as to the candidate for whom an elector in that station is about to vote or has voted, or as to the number on the ballot paper given to an elector at that station; or
(d) directly or indirectly induce an elector to display his ballot paper after he has marked it so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for or against whom he has so marked his vote.
(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this regulation commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
66. (1) It shall be the duty of the presiding officer to keep order at his polling station.
(2) If any person misconducts himself in a polling station, or fails to obey a lawful order of the returning officer or the presiding officer, such officer may order him to leave the polling station and if he fails to leave the polling station immediately, he may be removed from the polling station by a police officer, or by any other person authorized in writing by the returning officer or the presiding officer to remove him; and the person so removed shall not, without the permission of the presiding officer, again enter the polling station during that day.
(3) Any person so removed may, if charged with the commission in the polling station of an offence, be dealt with as a person taken into custody by a police officer for an offence without a warrant.
(4) The powers conferred by this regulation shall not be exercised so as to prevent an elector who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity of voting at that station.
67. (1) If, when an election is countermanded under regulation 5, polling has begun then the returning officer shall direct that the poll be abandoned, the proceedings at or consequent on that poll
65 of 1984, s. 29.
Keeping order in polling station.
Procedure where candidate dies during polling.