80Mobile polling booths

80  Mobile polling booths

 (1) In this rule:

 leader means a person appointed under this rule to be the leader of a team.

booth means a place at which a visit is being made by a team under this rule.

team means a mobile polling team appointed under this rule.

 (2) The Returning Officer may appoint persons to be members of mobile polling teams for the purposes of this rule and, in respect of each team, a person to be the leader.

 (3) Each team must include a liaison officer.

 (4) In relation to mobile polling, the provisions of this rule apply in addition to, and without derogation from, the application of any other provision of these Rules.

 (5) The Returning Officer:

 (a) may, subject to subrule (6), determine the places, days and times of visits to be made by a team for the purposes of this rule; and

 (b) is to take such steps as he or she thinks fit to give public notice of those places, days and times.

 (6) A day determined under subrule (5) is to be any of the 12 days preceding polling day, polling day, or a day to which the polling is adjourned.

 (7) A team is to make a visit or visits as determined under subrule (5) but if, for reasonable cause, the team is unable, or the leader considers it inappropriate, to make such a visit, the leader may substitute another place, day or time for the visit and, if he or she does so, must:

 (a) take such steps as he or she thinks fit to give public notice of the substituted place, day or time; and

 (b) inform the Returning Officer.

 (8) Any failure by a team to make a visit in accordance with this rule does not invalidate the result of the election.

 (9) At any time when a team is at a booth for the purposes of taking votes under this rule in an election:

 (a) the team must have:

 (i) ballot‑boxes, ballot‑papers and such other things as are necessary for the votes of voters to be taken at the booth; and

 (ii) the ‘how‑to‑vote’ cards (if any) supplied to it by the candidates; and

 (b) every voter at the booth is entitled to have his or her vote taken under this rule; and

 (c) for purposes of, and in connection with, the taking of votes under this rule:

 (i) the booth is to be taken to be a polling place; and

 (ii) the building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used by the leader for the purposes of taking votes under this rule is to be taken to be a polling booth at that polling place; and

 (iii) the leader is to be taken to be the presiding officer at that polling booth; and

 (d) so far as is practicable, a vote under this rule is to be taken as if it were taken under the other provisions (not being rule 77) of these Rules (including such of those other provisions as relate to absent voting); and