Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1986

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Special presiding officers.

9.—(1) The returning officer shall, as circumstances may require, for the purposes of this Act appoint one, or more than one, person to be a special presiding officer to carry out the functions conferred on a special presiding officer by this Act.

(2) The provisions of the Acts relating to the powers, rights and duties of a presiding officer appointed for a polling station at an election shall apply to a special presiding officer appointed under this section as if he were a presiding officer so appointed and as if the place where the special voter is casting his vote were a polling station at an election.

(3) The returning officer may perform all or any of the functions of a special presiding officer appointed under this section and the provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall apply to the returning officer while he is so performing.

(4) The provisions of the Acts relating to the right of an elector to request that his ballot paper be marked for him by a companion shall not apply in relation to a special voter.