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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/38",
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  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Receipt of covering envelope",
  "text": "Regulation 82 of the relevant regulations (receipt of covering envelope) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if for “returning officer” (in both places) there were substituted “counting officer”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 82 of the England and Wales Regulations was amended by regulation 65(a) of S.I. 2006/2910. Regulation 82 of the Scotland Regulations was amended by regulation 54(a) of S.I. 2007/925."
    }
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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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