Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1959
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Voting by persons in employment of local returning officers. |
3.—Where— | |
(a) a person is entitled to vote at the poll at a referendum, | ||
(b) he is employed, by the local returning officer for the constituency in which he is entitled to vote, for any purpose in connection with the poll in that constituency, and | ||
(c) the circumstances of his employment are, in the opinion of that officer, such as to prevent him from voting at the polling station at which he would otherwise be entitled to vote, | ||
that officer may authorise him in writing to vote at a specified other polling station in that constituency, and the polling station so specified shall, for the purpose of rule 8 of the rules contained in the First Schedule to the Referendum Act, 1942 , be deemed to be the polling station allotted to him. |