{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-no2-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-no2-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111475911",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-no2-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004",
  "text": "(1) The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004 are amended as follows.\n(2) In Schedule 1 (European Parliamentary elections rules), rule 53(3) (the count), for “them” substitute “the numbers or other unique identifying marks printed on the back of the papers”.\n(3) In Schedule 2 (absent voting)—\n(a) in paragraph 36(7) (requiring personal identifiers from existing absent voters), for “an elections” substitute “an election”;\n(b) in paragraph 39(1)(a) (consequences of failure or refusal to provide personal identifiers), for “voting records” substitute “absent voting records”;\n(c) in paragraph 54(10) (lost postal ballot papers), for “regulation 52” substitute “paragraph 52”; and\n(d) in paragraph 70(1) (forwarding of documents), for “those rules” substitute “the European Parliamentary elections rules”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/293 as modified by S.I.2004/294 and amended by S.I 2004/1771, S.I.2005/2114 and S.I 2009/186."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186, regulation 39 and Schedule 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186, regulation 40 and Schedule 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}