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14.—(1) The returning officer shall provide each presiding officer with such number of ballot boxes and ballot papers as in the returning officer’s opinion may be necessary.
(2) Every ballot box shall be so constructed that the ballot papers can be put in it, but cannot be withdrawn from it, without the box being unlocked.
(3) The returning officer 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 parliamentary electors or such part of it as contains the names of the electors allotted to the station;
(4) A notice shall be printed in conspicuous characters and exhibited inside and outside every polling station stating—
(a)in the case of the first election that an elector may vote for not more than three candidates and, in the case of subsequent electors, that an elector may only vote for one candidate; and
(b)that an elector should indicate the candidates or, in the case of elections other than the first, the candidate, for whom he wishes to vote by marking a cross on the ballot paper against each of their names or, as the case may be, the name of that candidate.
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