23.—(1) It is the presiding officer’s duty to keep order at the presiding officer’s polling station.
(2) If a person misconducts themselves in a polling station, or fails to obey the presiding officer’s lawful orders, that person may immediately, by the presiding officer’s order, be removed from the polling station—
(a)by a constable in or near that station; or
(b)by any other person authorised in writing by the relevant returning or counting officer to remove the person,
and the person so removed may not, without the presiding officer’s permission, again enter the polling station during the day.
(3) Any person so removed may, if charged with the commission in the polling station of an offence, be dealt with as a person taken into custody by a constable for an offence without a warrant.
(4) The powers conferred by this rule must not be exercised so as to prevent a voter or proxy who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity of voting at that station.