3rd Sched. (Part III)
(b) appoint a presiding officer to preside at
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each polling station, and such other officers
(including interpreters and poll clerks) as may
be necessary for taking the poll and counting
the votes;
(c) furnish each polling station with such number of
compartments as he may deem necessary in which the
electors can mark their votes screened from
observation;
(d) furnish each presiding officer with such number of
ballot boxes and ballot papers as he may deem
necessary;
(e) provide each polling station with materials to
enable electors to mark the ballot papers, with
instruments for stamping thereon the official mark,
and with copies of the register of electors for
the Municipality, or ward as the case may be, or
such part thereof as contains the names of the
electors allotted to vote at the station;
(f) do such other acts and things as may be necessary
for effectually conducting the election in manner
provided by this Schedule.
8.
One or more polling stations may be provided in the
same room.
9.
A notice, in the form set forth in Part IV of this
Schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and in
case voting by Chinese electors is involved, a like notice
in Chinese, giving directions for the guidance of electors
in voting, shall be exhibited outside every polling station,
and in every compartment in the polling station.
Ballot boxes, ballot papers, official mark.
10. Every ballot box shall be so constructed that the
ballot papers can be put therein, but cannot be withdrawn
therefrom, without the box being unlocked.
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