{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-56.json",
  "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/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Amendments to Schedule 3 to the 2004 Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 3 (modification of European Parliamentary elections rules for combined polls), for paragraph 8 of Part 1 (England and Wales), substitute—\n“8. For paragraph (7) of rule 32 (equipment of polling stations) substitute the following—\n“(7) In every compartment of every polling station there must be exhibited the notice:\n*PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION\n([Specify colour] ballot paper)\nVote for ONLY ONE CANDIDATE by putting a cross [X] in the box next to your choice.\n*EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION\n([Specify colour] ballot paper)\nVote ONLY ONCE by putting a cross [X] in the box next to your choice.\n*[Specify name of council] COUNCIL ELECTION\n([Specify colour] ballot paper)\n*[Vote for NO MORE THAN … CANDIDATES by putting a cross [X] in the box next to EACH of your choices]\n*[Vote ONLY ONCE by putting a cross [X] in the box next to your choice]\n*ELECTION OF THE MAYOR OF LONDON\n([Specify colour] ballot paper)\n#On the ballot paper for the election of the Mayor, vote ONCE for your first choice and ONCE for your second choice.\n*ELECTION OF THE LONDON ASSEMBLY\n#On the constituency members ballot paper [(specify colour)] vote for ONE candidate only.\n#On the London members ballot paper [(specify colour)] vote for ONE party or individual candidate only.\n*[Specify other] ELECTION/REFERENDUM\n([Specify colour] ballot paper)\n*[Vote for ONE candidate only]\n*Vote ONCE for your first choice and ONCE for your second choice]\n*[Mark ONE answer to the referendum question]\nPUT NO OTHER MARK ON THE BALLOT PAPER(S)*\nOR YOUR VOTE(S)* MAY NOT COUNT\n*[PLEASE DO NOT FOLD THE BALLOT PAPERS FOR [specify the elections at which the votes are to be counted electronically]. *Post them, face downwards, in the [*appropriate] ballot box.]\n*Complete or omit as necessary\n#Alternatively, insert such information as the GLRO may decide”.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 3 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186. There is another amending instrument but it is not relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111101223/regulation/56",
    "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."
}