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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-conduct-of-referendumsengland-regulations-2012/schedule-5/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111517604",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums)(England) Regulations 2012",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Notification of requirement of secrecy in respect of polling stations",
  "text": "The relevant returning or counting officer must make such arrangements as he or she thinks fit to ensure that every person attending at a polling station (otherwise than for the purpose of voting or assisting a voter or proxy with disabilities to vote or as a constable on duty there) has been given a copy in writing of the provisions of subsections (1), (3) and (6) of section 66 of the 1983 Act, as applied by Schedule 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 66 of the 1983 Act were amended by paragraphs 69, 82, 86(b) and 96 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22); subsection (6) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111517604/schedule/5/paragraph/20",
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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."
}