Notices for the guidance of voters
29.—(1) The CRO must prepare the notices to be exhibited under rule 28(8).
(2) The CRO may prepare versions of the notices in such other form as he thinks appropriate, in accordance with section 199B (translations etc of certain documents) of the 1983 Act.
(3) Notices for the guidance of voters exhibited under rule 28(8) or paragraph (2) must be in the appropriate form, but may include such alternative information relating to Authority elections as—
(a)meets with the requirements of the Notices Schedule, and
(b)the CRO may decide.
(4) Notices provided under paragraph (2) may, if the CRO agrees, be exhibited at any polling station—
(a)outside the polling station,
(b)inside the polling station—
(i)in the communal areas,
(ii)in every voting compartment.
(5) At an ordinary election, the GLRO must prepare the notices and versions of notices to be exhibited under rule 28(8) and supply them to the CRO, and for paragraph (3)(b) of this rule there is substituted—
“(b)the GLRO may decide.”
(6) Where the CRO does not discharge the functions specified in regulation 5 of the Combination of Polls Regulations, then references to the CRO in this rule must be read as references to the returning officer who does discharge those functions.