Maintenance of order at polling station

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this regulation, during the hours when the poll is open upon election day no persons shall assemble or congregate within one hundred yards of any building in which is situate any polling station. (2) This regulation shall not apply– (a) to any voters who are waiting to poll their votes at such polling stations and who obey any instructions which may be given by the presiding officer or any constable for the purpose of forming a queue with other electors also so waiting; or (b) to any person who may under the provisions of these Regulations lawfully enter or remain in such polling station. (3) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.