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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110390946",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Notification of requirement of secrecy",
  "text": "The returning officer shall make such arrangements as he thinks fit to ensure that—\n(a) every person attending at a polling station (otherwise than for the purpose of voting or assisting a voter 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; and\n(b) every person attending at the counting of the votes (other than any constable on duty at the counting) has been given a copy in writing of the provisions of subsections (2) and (6) of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 66(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/2002/0110390946/schedule/1/paragraph/27",
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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."
}