COMMISSIONERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 27 Returning officer may summon rate collectors, &c. to attend the election, and answer questions as to rights of electors to vote.

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COMMISSIONERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 27

Returning officer may summon rate collectors, &c. to attend the election, and answer questions as to rights of electors to vote.

27. If the qualification of the electors of the commissioners depend upon the
rates payable by such electors, the returning officer may summon the overseers
or inspectors of the poor, collectors, and other officers employed in the
assessment or collection of the rates to attend the election, in order to
assist in ascertaining that the persons presenting themselves to vote, or who
have voted, are or were duly qualified to vote at such election; and such
overseers or inspectors, rate collectors, or other officers shall attend with
the rates and such other documents necessary for the purpose aforesaid as may
be in their custody or power, at such places and at such times as the
returning officer may direct, and shall answer all such questions as any
presiding officer at the poll shall put to them respecting the title of any
person to vote at the election; and any overseer or inspector, rate collector,
or other officer who shall wilfully neglect or fail to perform the duties
hereby imposed upon him shall for such neglect or failure be liable to a
penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

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COMMISSIONERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 27