{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-37",
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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/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Amendments to Schedule 2 to the 2004 Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In Schedule 2, in paragraph 26 (closing date for applications), after sub-paragraph (4)(a) insert—\n“(aa) on grounds relating to the applicant’s occupation, service or employment and the applicant became aware of those grounds after 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the date of the poll at the election for which it is made; or”.\n(2) In that paragraph, after sub-paragraph (6) insert—\n“(6A) Any application or notice mentioned in this paragraph must be disregarded for the purposes of a particular European Parliamentary election if, before the application or notice is considered by the registration officer, the elector or proxy has returned a postal ballot paper to the returning officer (except where it has been returned in accordance with paragraph 53 or 54 (spoilt and lost postal ballot papers)).”",
  "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/37",
    "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."
}