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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-27",
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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/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Refusal to issue ballot paper",
  "text": "Regulation 73 of the relevant regulations (refusal to issue ballot paper) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—\n(a) for “returning officer” there were substituted “counting officer”, and\n(b) for “at any one election” there were substituted “for the referendum”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 73 of the England and Wales Regulations was amended by regulation 49 of S.I. 2006/2910. Regulation 72 of the Scotland Regulations was amended by regulation 37 of S.I. 2007/925."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}