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The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987

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Provision of polling stations

9.—(1) The returning officer shall provide a sufficient number of polling stations and, if more than one polling station is provided, shall allot the electors to the polling station in such manner as he thinks most convenient, subject to the following provisions of this rule.

(2) One or more polling stations may be provided in the same room.

(3) The polling station allotted to electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the parish or community shall, in the absence of special circumstances, be in the parliamentary polling place for that district, unless that place is outside the parish or community.

(4) The returning officer shall provide each polling station with such number of compartments as may be necessary in which the voters can mark their votes screened from observation.

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