Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:203
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 203
Character Range: 454089–456094

203  Arrangements for polling
 (1) If the proceedings on the day of nomination stand adjourned to polling day, the Divisional Returning Officer shall immediately make all necessary arrangements for taking the poll, and in particular shall:
 (a) provide and furnish proper polling booths and ballot‑boxes; and
 (b) provide ballot papers and all necessary certified lists of voters and approved lists of voters.
 (2) If the proceedings on the day of nomination stand adjourned to polling day, the Electoral Commission, in pursuance of its powers under section 35, shall immediately appoint a presiding officer to preside at each polling place and all necessary deputy presiding officers and assistant presiding officers.
 (3) In any emergency on polling day due to the absence of any deputy presiding officer or assistant presiding officer, or to any unforeseen and continued pressure at the polling which cannot be met by the duly appointed officers, the presiding officer may appoint any person to act as deputy presiding officer or assistant presiding officer, and the person so appointed or acting shall be deemed to have been duly appointed if the Electoral Commission afterwards ratifies the appointment by appointing that person to be deputy presiding officer or assistant presiding officer, as the case may be.
 (4) No person under the age of 18 years shall be appointed to be a presiding officer, deputy presiding officer or assistant presiding officer.
 (5) Any deputy presiding officer or assistant presiding officer may, subject to the direction of the presiding officer, exercise all or any of the powers of the presiding officer, and shall, in respect of the exercise of those powers, be deemed to be the presiding officer.
 (7) The polling booths and ballot‑boxes provided for the purposes of an election may be used for the purposes of any other election, or of a referendum, held on the same day, but the ballot papers for each election and the referendum shall be distinctively coloured.