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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2024/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348256178",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2024",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of paragraph 1 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In paragraph 1—\n(a) the existing text becomes sub-paragraph (1);\n(b) in sub-paragraph (1) insert each of the following definitions at the appropriate place—\n““left behind postal voting document” has the same meaning as in paragraph 15F(1);”;”\n““postal voting document” means a postal ballot paper or declaration of identity;”;”\n““return of postal voting documents form” has the same meaning as in paragraph 15A(2);”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(2) In this Part, a reference to a person seeking to hand in a postal voting document is a reference to a person seeking to hand in a covering envelope purporting to contain a postal voting document to the returning officer.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “postal ballot paper”, see paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1985/454."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “returning officer”, see paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1985/454."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348256178/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:41:51.226129+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}