CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 107

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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.

16.

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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.

(10)

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