Power to remove statements, names, emblems, slogans, or logos

1 The Returning Officer may at any time on polling day before the close of the poll cause to be removed or obliterated— a any statement advising or intended or likely to influence any elector as to the candidate or party for whom the elector should or should not vote; or b any statement advising or intended or likely to influence any elector to abstain from voting; or c any party name, emblem, slogan, or logo,— which is exhibited in or in view of any public place. 2 Nothing in subsection (1)(c) shall apply to ribbons, streamers, rosettes, or items of a similar nature which are worn or displayed by any person (whether on his or her person or on any vehicle) in his or her party’s colours or to a party lapel badge worn by any person. 3 Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to a statement, party name, emblem, slogan, or logo which does not relate specifically to the election campaign and which was so exhibited before polling day in a fixed position and in relation to the New Zealand or regional or campaign headquarters (not being mobile headquarters) of a political party. 1956 No 107 s 127A(1)–(3); 1981 No 120 s 40(1); 1990 No 1 s 66