Presiding officer to receive votes

(1) The presiding officer at any polling station shall receive the votes of all duly qualified persons whose names are on the register of electors and who appear and apply for a ballot paper. (2) Where the name of any person, who has been duly registered as an elector either under the Representation of the People Act or under these Regulations and in respect of whom a registration record card has been completed does not appear on the register of electors, such person shall nevertheless, upon production by him of his identification card, be permitted to vote in the polling area in which he would have been entitled to vote, provided that the presiding officer shall maintain a list of the names and registration numbers of the electors thus permitted to vote and of the number of the ballot paper issued to each of them. 79