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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-26",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111142967",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Illegal canvassing by police officers",
  "text": "Section 100 of the 1983 Act applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if in subsection (1)—\n(a) for “as an elector” there were substituted “on that person’s own behalf”, and\n(b) the words after “proxy” were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 100 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50) and section 78(2)(c) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c.32)."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:43.057571+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."
}