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Section 80, The Public Elections Act, 2012
Status not yet checkedThe Public Elections Act, 2012, Sierra Leone
(1) The Presiding Officer shall keep order in the pollingstation.
(2) If a person misconducts himself in a polling station or
fails to obey a lawful order of the Presiding Officer, the person may,
on the order of the Presiding Officer, be removed from the polling
station by a constable, or by any other person authorised in writing
by the Presiding Officer in that behalf; and the person so removed
shall not, without the permission of the Presiding Officer, again enter
the polling station during the day of the election.
(3) A person so removed may be charged with the
commission of an offence.
(4) Subsection (2) shall not be used so as to prevent a
person who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from
having an opportunity to vote.
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