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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011

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Equipment of polling stations
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17(1)The counting officer must provide each presiding officer with however many ballot boxes and ballot papers the counting officer thinks are necessary.

(2)Every ballot box must be constructed so that the ballot papers can be put in it, but cannot be withdrawn from it, without the box being unlocked or (in the case of a box without a lock) the seal being broken.

(3)The counting officer must provide each polling station with—

(a)materials to enable voters to mark the ballot papers;

(b)copies of each register of electors used for the referendum that contains the entries relating to the electors allotted to the station (or, in the case of a register only part of which contains those entries, that part);

(c)the parts of any special lists prepared for the referendum corresponding to each register or part of a register provided under sub-paragraph (b);

(d)a list consisting of that part of the list prepared under rule 6 that contains the numbers (but not the other unique identifying marks) corresponding to those on the ballot papers provided to the presiding officer of the polling station.

The list provided under sub-paragraph (d) must be in the form set out in Form 11 in Part 2 of this Schedule.

(4)The counting officer must also provide each polling station with—

(a)at least one large version of the ballot paper, which must be displayed inside the polling station for the assistance of voters who are partially sighted;

(b)a device for enabling voters who are blind or partially sighted to vote without any need for assistance from the presiding officer or any companion (within the meaning of rule 31 (1)).

(5)The device mentioned in paragraph (4)(b) must—

(a)allow a ballot paper to be inserted into and removed from the device, or attached to and detached from it, easily and without damage to the paper;

(b)keep the ballot paper firmly in place during use;

(c)provide suitable means for the voter—

(i)to identify the spaces on the ballot paper on which the voter may mark his or her vote,

(ii)to identify the answer to which each such space refers, and

(iii)to mark his or her vote on the space the voter has chosen.

(6)A notice in the form set out in Form 12 in Part 2 of this Schedule, giving directions for the guidance of the voters in voting, must be printed in conspicuous characters and exhibited inside and outside every polling station.

(7)In every compartment of every polling station there must be exhibited the notice—

Mark one box only. Put no other mark on the ballot paper, or your vote may not be counted.

(8)The reference in paragraph (3)(b) to the copies of a register of electors includes a reference to copies of any notices issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) or 13BA(9) of the 1983 Act in respect of alterations to the register.

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