Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 U.K. Rules for conduct of the referendum

PART 1 U.K. Referendum rules

Action to be taken before the poll U.K.

Appointment of presiding officers and clerks U.K.

14 (1) The counting officer must appoint and pay— U.K.

(a) a presiding officer to attend at each polling station;

(b) however many clerks are necessary for the purposes of the referendum.

But the officer may not employ a person who has been employed by or on behalf of a permitted participant in or about the referendum.

(2) The counting officer may, if the officer thinks fit, preside at a polling station.

(3) A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist the officer, any act (including the asking of questions) which the officer is required or authorised by these rules to do at a polling station except order the arrest, exclusion or removal of a person from the polling station.