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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-23",
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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/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Amendments to Schedule 1 to the 2004 Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 1, in rule 34 (notification of requirement of secrecy), make the existing provision paragraph (1) and after that paragraph insert—\n“(2) In the application of this rule to an election in England or Wales, a reference to a constable includes a person designated as a community support officer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (police powers for civilian staff).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c.30; section 38 was amended by section 120 of and Schedules 4 and 17 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15), section 7 of and Schedule 5 to the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c.48), Schedules 7 and 8 to the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c.26) and Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111101223/regulation/23",
    "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."
}