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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-32",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111142967",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016",
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  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/32",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Lost postal ballot papers",
  "text": "Regulation 78 of the relevant regulations (lost postal ballot papers) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if for “returning officer” (in each place) there were substituted “counting officer”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 78 of the England and Wales Regulations was amended by regulation 10 of S.I. 2006/752 and regulations 22 and 65(2) of S.I. 2006/2910. Regulation 78 of the Scotland Regulations was amended by regulation 9 of S.I. 2006/834; regulations 22 and 54(a) of S.I. 2007/925; and regulation 30 of S.I. 2013/3206."
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  "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."
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