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23.—(1) It is the petition clerk’s duty to keep order at the petition signing place with regard to the conduct of the petition.
(2) If a person misconducts themselves in a petition signing place, or fails to obey the petition clerk’s lawful orders, they may immediately, by the petition clerk’s order, be removed from the petition signing place—
(a)by a constable in or near that place, or
(b)by any other person authorised in writing by the petition officer to remove them,
and the person so removed must not, without the petition officer’s permission, again enter the petition signing place at any time when the petition is available for signing there.
(3) Any person so removed may, if charged with the commission in the petition signing place 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 regulation must not be exercised so as to prevent a person who is otherwise entitled to sign the petition at the petition signing place from having an opportunity to sign the petition at that place.
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