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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-46",
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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/46",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Checking of lists of rejected postal ballot papers",
  "text": "Regulation 88 of the relevant regulations (checking of lists of rejected postal ballot papers) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if—\n(a) for “returning officer” (in each place) there were substituted “counting officer”, and\n(b) in paragraph (3), for the words from “constituency” to the end there were substituted “voting area under regulation 44(4) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 88 of the England and Wales Regulations was amended by regulation 65 of S.I. 2006/2910. Regulation 88 of the Scotland Regulations was amended by regulation 54 of S.I. 2007/925."
    }
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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."
}