Maintenance of order in polling station. 106. —(1) If any person misconducts himself at a polling station or fails to obey the lawful orders of the presiding officer for that station, he may immediately, by order of the said presiding officer, be removed from the polling station by any member of the Garda Síochána or by any other person authorised in writing by the presiding officer to remove him. A person so removed shall not re-enter the polling station without the permission of the presiding officer. (2) The presiding officer shall as far as practicable ensure that all material which advocates the candidature of a particular person or persons or of members of a political party is removed from the polling station. (3) For the purpose of this section a polling station shall be deemed to include all parts of the building and any land within the curtilage of the building in which the polling station is situate.
§ Electoral Act 1992 s. 106Maintenance of order in polling station
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