ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) terms of section 55(2)(b) to be within the polling station as are present, count and record the total number of ballot papers received at the polling station. 55 Conduct of poll (1) {Repealed] (2) The presiding officer and other officers at the polling station shall— (a) keep order thereat and regulate the number of voters to be admitted at a time; and (b) exclude all persons other than— (i) electoral officers present for the performance of their official duties; and (ii) the candidates and their chief election agents; and (iii) one election agent for each Presidential candidate or candidate standing in the constituency or ward where the polling station is located; and (iv) accredited observers; and (v) persons who are recording their votes; and (vi) such other classes of persons as may be prescribed. (3) Save as is provided in subsection (2), the presiding officer may require any person, other than a person actually recording his or her vote, to leave the polling station and— (a) any person who fails to leave the polling station when so required may be arrested on the order of the presiding officer and shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment; (b) any person empowered by law to make arrests shall carry out an order of the presiding officer in terms of paragraph (a). (4) The powers conferred by subsections (2) and (3) shall not be exercised so as to prevent any voter who is entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity of voting at that polling station. (5) For the purpose of keeping order at a polling station and the area surrounding it, every electoral officer at the polling station shall have the powers of a peace officer under the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07]. (6) A presiding officer may call upon a police officer for assistance in keeping order at the polling station and the area surrounding it, and every police officer so called upon shall provide whatever assistance is needed. (7) The Commissioner-General of Police shall ensure that sufficient numbers of police officers are available to provide assistance if called upon in terms of subsection (6). (8) The presiding officer shall record in detail every incident in which order at the polling station and the area surrounding it was disrupted and, in particular, every occasion in which a person was expelled or required to leave the polling station or its surrounding area in terms of this section. 56 Entitlement to vote, number of votes and identification of voters (1) At an election held for the purpose of electing the President, members of Parliament and councillors— - 45 -