Provision of polling stations
26.—(1) The local returning officer must provide a sufficient number of polling stations and, subject to the following provisions of this rule, must allot the electors to the polling stations in whatever manner the officer thinks most convenient.
(2) One or more polling stations may be provided in the same room.
(3) The polling station to which electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the voting area are allotted must, in the absence of special circumstances, be in the parliamentary polling place for that district unless that place is outside the voting area.
(4) The local returning officer must provide each polling station with however many compartments are necessary in which the voters can mark their votes screened from observation.