When you are voting, the Returning Officer might choose some polling place officials to be interpreters. If you are a candidate, you can ask the Returning Officer for the names of these interpreters. The Returning Officer must give you the names if you ask for them. The rules about using interpreters are made under a part of the law called section 267. These rules can say how interpreters should be used when you are voting.
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Whenever the Returning Officer designates polling place officials as interpreters, the Returning Officer must, at the request of a candidate, give the candidate the names of the interpreters.
Regulations made under section 267 may prescribe procedures governing the use of interpreters.
