The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2000

Equipment of polling stations

25.—(1) The CRO shall provide each presiding officer with such number of ballot boxes and such ballot papers as in the CRO’s opinion may be necessary.

(2) The same ballot box shall be used at an ordinary election for the ballot papers containing the constituency vote, the London vote and the mayoral vote.

(3) Every ballot box shall be so constructed that the ballot papers can be put in it, but cannot be withdrawn from it, without the box being unlocked or, where the box has no lock, the seal being broken.

(4) The CRO shall provide each polling station with—

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

(b) instruments for stamping on them the official mark;

(c) copies of the register of electors for such part of it as contains the names of the electors allotted to the station;

(d) the parts of any special lists prepared for the election corresponding to the register of electors or the part of it provided under sub-paragraph (c).

(5) Notices in the appropriate forms, for the guidance of voters, shall be exhibited—

(a) inside and outside every polling station,

(b) in every polling station, and

(c) in every compartment of every polling station.