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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-act-2014-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-order-2015/schedule/paragraph-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/643",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-act-2014-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "In regulation 53 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 (additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a definite or indefinite period on grounds of blindness or any other disability)—\n(a) in paragraph (5)(a), for the words from “as a blind person” to the end, substitute—\n“by the local authority which is specified in the application as—\n(i) a blind person under section 29(4)(g) of the National Assistance Act 1948; or\n(ii) a person who is severely sight-impaired under section 77(1) of the Care Act 2014 (registers of sight-impaired adults); or”;\n(b) in paragraph (6), after “section 29(4)(g) of the National Assistance Act 1948”, insert “or registered as severely sight-impaired by a local authority under section 77(1) of the Care Act 2014 (registers of sight-impaired adults)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341; there are amendments not relevant to this instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1094",
      "affecting_title": "The Building (Local Authority Charges and Amendments Relating to Charging) (England) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/643/schedule/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:12.489669+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}