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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-25",
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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/3/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Time when postal ballot papers are to be issued",
  "text": "Regulation 71 of the relevant regulations (time when postal ballot papers are to be issued) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if for the words from “be issued” to the end there were substituted—\n“not be issued by a counting officer so as to be received by persons entitled to vote in the referendum before the beginning of the relevant period within the meaning of section 125 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (restriction on campaigning by certain persons or bodies).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 71 of the England and Wales Regulations was substituted by regulation 29 of S.I. 2013/3198. Regulation 71 of the Scotland Regulations was substituted by regulation 29 of S.I. 2013/3206."
    }
  ],
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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."
}