The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

Admission to polling station

33.—(1) The presiding officer shall regulate the number of voters to be admitted to the polling station at the same time, and shall exclude all other persons except—

(a) the candidates and the election agents of any registered party standing nominated and any individual candidate;

(b) the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station;

(c) the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station;

(d) the constables on duty;

(e) the companions of voters with disabilities; and

(f) representatives of the Electoral Commission.

(2) Not more than one polling agent shall be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same registered party standing nominated and any individual candidate.

(3) A constable or person employed by a local returning officer shall not be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at his own polling station under the relevant provision of these Regulations, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to his employment, which shall be in the form in the Appendix and signed by an officer of police of or above the rank of inspector or by the local returning officer, as the case may be.

(4) Any certificate surrendered under this rule shall forthwith be cancelled.