§ Amendment made: No. 50, in page 2, line 14 at end insert —
§ `(3A) The pilot order must make provision requiring the returning officer to provide (before the close of the poll at the election) polling progress information.
- (a) to such persons or organisations as are specified in the order or are of such descriptions as are so specified, and
- (b) at such times and in such circumstances as are so specified.
§ (3B) Polling progress information is information as to the electors by whom it appears to the returning officer at the time the information is provided that a vote has been cast.
§ (3C) For the purposes of subsection (3B) the returning officer must be taken not to have seen the contents of any ballot paper.
§ (3D) The returning officer is the person who is described as such in the order.' — [Mr. Leslie.]