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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111105054",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make changes to the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004 (the “2004 Regulations”). The European Parliamentary Elections Rules are contained in Schedule 1 to the 2004 Regulations. Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations makes provision for when the poll at a European Parliamentary election is held together with the poll at a parliamentary election or a local election in Northern Ireland.\nRegulation 2 amends rule 31 of the European Parliamentary Elections Rules to allow candidates to notify the appointment of polling and counting agents to the returning officer on the fifth day, rather than the second day, before the poll. This is consistent with the position at local, Assembly and parliamentary elections in Northern Ireland.\nRegulation 3(2) inserts paragraphs 14A and 14B into Schedule 6. Paragraph 14A provides that when elections are combined, persons entitled to attend the count for another election held together with a European Parliamentary election are entitled to attend the verification process for a European Parliamentary election. Paragraph 14B provides that where separate ballot boxes have been used at a combined election, the ballot boxes for each election can be opened at the start of the verification process in order to separate ballot papers which have been placed in the wrong ballot box.\nRegulation 3(3) inserts paragraph 17A into Schedule 6 to provide that, when elections are combined, the name of the election will be included at the top of the ballot paper.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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