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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111101223",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Amendments to Schedule 1 to the 2004 Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 1, after rule 9 insert—\n“Request for information where candidate is relevant citizen of the Union\n9A. (1) This rule applies where the candidate is a relevant citizen of the Union and the Secretary of State has received a copy of a declaration in accordance with rule 9(6).\n(2) The Secretary of State must send a notice to the designated contact point in the Member State of which the candidate is a national.\n(3) The notice referred to in paragraph (2)—\n(a) must notify the Member State of the declaration made by the candidate under rule 9(4);\n(b) must ask whether the candidate has been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate through a relevant disqualifying decision in that Member State; and\n(c) may request a response by a specified date.\n(4) The Secretary of State must send to the returning officer a copy of any response to the notice as soon as practicable after the response is received.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111101223/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:20.193615+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."
}