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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111503232",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 57 (rules for conduct of elections) insert—\n“Returning officers: correction of procedural errors\n57A. (1) The returning officer at a local election may take such steps as the returning officer thinks appropriate to remedy any act or omission on the returning officer’s part, or on the part of a relevant person, which—\n(a) arises in connection with any function the returning officer or relevant person has in relation to the election; and\n(b) is not in accordance with the rules or any other requirements applicable to the election.\n(2) But a returning officer may not under subsection (1) re-count the votes given at an election after the result has been declared.\n(3) These are the relevant persons—\n(a) the registration officer;\n(b) a presiding officer;\n(c) a person providing goods or services to the returning officer;\n(d) a deputy of any person mentioned in paragraph (a) to (c) or a person appointed to assist, or in the course of that person’s employment assisting, such a person in connection with any function that person has in relation to the election.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 57 was amended by S.I. 1972/1264 (N.I. 13)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111503232/schedule/1/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:54:34.201486+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."
}