HC Deb 27 June 1892 vol 5 c1924
DR. CLARK

The Attorney General is not present, but perhaps, as it is a question of law as regards polling, the Lord Advocate can answer the question which stands in the name of the hon. Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. Wallace), namely, whether the practice of refusing to accept the votes of persons who have been admitted into the polling places before 8 p.m. but have not completed voting before 8 p.m. is in accordance with the Ballot Act; and, if not, will Returning Officers be informed that they ought to allow the voters admitted before 8 p.m. to the polling place to fill their paper and place it in the ballot box?

*THE LORD ADVOCATE (Sir C. J. PEARSON,) Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities

That is a question I could not undertake to answer without notice.