ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (i) shall establish a sufficient number of polling stations in each ward of the constituency concerned; (ii) shall receive from political parties contesting the election concerned any representations on the issue of the location of polling stations in any constituency, and may give directions on this matter to any provincial elections officer, district elections officer or constituency elections officer on the basis of such representations. [Subsection as substituted by Part VI of Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (1a) Every polling station shall be located in a place that is readily accessible to the public, including persons with physical disabilities. [Subsection inserted by s. 38 of Act No. 17 of 2007] (1b) No polling station shall be located— (a) in premises owned or occupied by a political party or candidate; or (b) in a police station, barracks, cantonment area or other place where police officers or members of the Defence Forces are permanently stationed; or (c) in premises licensed under the Liquor Act [Chapter 14:12]; or (d) at or in any place which, for any reason, may give rise to reasonable apprehension on the part of voters as to the secrecy of their votes or the integrity of the electoral process. [Subsection inserted by s. 38 of Act No. 17 of 2007] (2) A polling station may, in addition to the polling stations established within the boundaries of the constituency concerned, be established in terms of subsection (1) at a place which is outside the boundaries of the constituency concerned: Provided that no polling station shall be established as a polling station for more than one constituency. (3) The Commission shall cause a notice of— (a) the places at which polling stations are to be established; and (b) the hours during which the polling stations will be open; to be published at least three weeks before polling day and again on polling day, in a newspaper circulating in the constituency concerned and in such other manner as it thinks fit. [Subsection as amended by s. 38 of Act No. 17 of 2007 and by Part VI of Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 52 Provision of requisites and officers for purpose of poll (1) For any election the Commission shall ensure that every constituency elections officer is provided with polling booths or voting compartments and ballot boxes, and shall provide papers, including ballot papers, instruments for marking ballot papers with the official mark, seals and other necessary things and shall do such other acts and things and make such arrangements to facilitate the taking of the poll as the Commission may consider advisable for effectively conducting the election, and the expenditure incurred upon all such acts and things shall be charged upon and paid out of the funds of the Commission, or, to the extent of any insufficiency of the funds of the Commission for this purpose, the Consolidated Revenue Fund. (2) Where two or more elections are to be held concurrently in a constituency, the Commission shall ensure that the constituency elections officer concerned is provided with separate ballot boxes for each such election. [Section substituted by Part VI of Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 52A Number of ballot papers and publication of details regarding them [Section heading amended by s. 23 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (1) The Commission shall ensure that the number of ballot papers printed for any election does not exceed by more than ten per centum the number of registered voters eligible to vote in the election. [Subsection inserted by s. 23 of Act No. 6 of 2018] 75