3rd Sched. (Part III)
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14.
Admission to polling station.
(1) No person shall be admitted to vote at any
polling station except at the one allotted to him.
(2) The presiding officer shall regulate the number of
electors to be admitted to the polling station at the same
time, and shall exclude all other persons except the
candidates, the polling agents, the officers appointed under
this Schedule, the police officers on duty, and any person
accompanying a blind or infirm elector for the purpose of
assisting him to vote.
Ballot boxes to be sealed.
15. Immediately before the commencement of the poll,
the presiding officer shall show the ballot box empty to such
persons; if any, as may be present in the polling station, so
that they may see that it is empty, 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.
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Questions to be put to electors.
(1) The presiding officer may, and, if required
by any two registered electors or by a candidate or his polling
agent, shall put to any person applying for a 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 af
electors now in force for this Municipality (or ward)
as follows (read the whole entry from the register)?
(b) Have you already voted at the present election (adding
in the case of an election for several wards, in this or
any other ward)?
(2) 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.
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