34.—(1) The presiding officer must exclude all persons from the polling station except—
(a)voters,
(b)persons under the age of 18 who accompany voters to the polling station,
(c)the candidates and their election agents,
(d)the polling agents appointed to attend at the polling station,
(e)the clerks appointed to attend at the polling station,
(f)persons who are entitled to attend by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the 2000 Act,
(g)the constables on duty, and
(h)the companions of voters with disabilities.
(2) The presiding officer must regulate the total number of voters and persons under the age of 18 who accompany them to be admitted to the polling station at the same time.
(3) Not more than one polling agent may be admitted at the same time to a polling station on behalf of the same party or individual candidate.
(4) A constable or person employed by the CRO must not be admitted to vote in person elsewhere than at his own polling station allotted to him under these Rules, except on production and surrender of a certificate as to his employment which must be in the appropriate form and signed by an officer of the police of or above the rank of inspector or by the CRO, as the case may be.
(5) Any certificate surrendered under this rule must forthwith be cancelled.
[F1(6) In this rule a reference to a constable includes a person designated as a community support officer under section 38 of the 2002 Act.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 rule 34(6) inserted (8.2.2016) by The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/24), rules 1(2), 5(3)(b)