The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Regulation of Elections Act Amendment Act 1871.”

The twenty-seventh section of “The Regulation of Elections Act 1870” is hereby repealed and the following section is enacted in lieu thereof:—

For taking the poll at any election the Returning Officer shall cause booths to be erected or rooms to be hired or otherwise provided and used as such booths at each polling place as occasion may require and if under this provision there shall be more than one booth at any polling place there shall be affixed over the entrance of each booth in succession so many letters of the alphabet in their alphabetical order as shall denote the booth at which each elector according to the initial letter of his surname is to vote and no elector shall be permitted to vote in any booth save that which is so denoted by the initial letter of his surname Provided always that no polling booth shall be in any house licensed for the sale of fermented or spirituous liquors or upon the premises appertaining to such House.