Delineation
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(b) the registration officer;
(0) the Chairman and members of the Council;
(7) any person accompanying a blind or infirm elector for
the purpose of assisting him to vote;
(k) properly accredited members of the press in the exercise
of their duties.
(3) When an elector is employed by the returning officer for any purpose in connexion with an election and the circumstances of that employment are, in the opinion of the returning officer, such as to prevent him from voting at the polling station at which the elector would otherwise be entitled to vote, the returning officer may authorize the elector by a certificate given under his hand, to vote at the pulling station at which he is employed, and such polling station shall for all purposes be deemed to be the polling station allotted to that elector.
26. Before the date of each election the registration officer of palling shall delineate clearly in such manner as he shall think fit whether
by marks or by the display outside the polling station of a map. the boundaries of each polling station.
slations.
Offences In polling atations.
27. (1) Any person other than-
(a) the returning officer or an assistant returning officer : (b) the presiding officer or an assistant presiding officer; (c) members of the staff of the presiding officer; (d) police on duty at any polling station;
(e) a companion of a blind voter acting in accordance with
regulation 34,
who speaks to any elector within the boundaries of any polling station shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction therefor shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
(a) Any person who--
(a) takes photographs:
(b) canvasses in favour of any candidate;
(c) displays any poster in favour of any candidate,
within the boundaries of any polling station shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction therefor shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
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Conduct of Poll.
28. Immediately before the commencement of the poll, the Sealing of presiding officer shall show the ballot box empty to such
ballot persons, boxes.
if any, as may be present, and shall then lock it up and place his seal upon it in such manner as to prevent it being opened without breaking the seal, and shall place it in his view for the receipt of ballot papers, and keep it so locked and sealed.
put to
29. (1) The presiding officer may, and, if required by any Questiona two electors or by a candidate or his polling agent, shall put by to be way of an interpreter or otherwise to any person applying for a slectore. ballot paper at the time of his application, but not afterwards, the following questions, or either of them, that is to say---
(a) Are you the person registered in the register of electors now in force for this election as follows (reads the whole entry from the register)?
(b) Have you already voted at the present election? (3) A ballot paper shall not be delivered to any person required to answer the above questions, or either of them, unless he has answered the question or questions satisfactorily.
(3) Save as by this regulation authorized, no inquiry shall be permitted on the day of such election as to the right of any
person to vote.
30. (1) If at the time a person applies for a ballot paper or Challenge after he has applied for a ballot paper and before he has left the of electors. polling station, a polling agent declares to the presiding officer that he has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has committed the offence of personation as defined by section 6 of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Ordinance, 1955, and undertakes to substantiate the charge in a court of law, the presiding officer may order a police officer to arrest the applicant, and the order of the presiding officer shall be suflicient authority for the police officer so to do.
(2) A person against whom a declaration is made under this regulation by a polling agent shall not, by reason thereof, be prevented from voting, but the presiding officer shall cause the words "protested against for personation" to be placed against his name in the marked copy of the register of electors.