{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-20",
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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/2/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 8 (ballot paper envelope) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) For “elections rules” substitute “Local Elections Rules”;\n(b) for “marked” substitute “referred to as a”; and\n(c) omit “bearing the number of the ballot paper”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) The covering envelope shall be marked with the letter “B”.\n(1B) The ballot paper envelope shall be marked with—\n(a) the letter “A”;\n(b) the words “ballot paper envelope”; and\n(c) the number of the ballot paper, unless the envelope has a window through which the number on the ballot paper (or ballot papers) can be displayed.”.\n(4) After sub-paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) In paragraphs 17A and 17B, a reference to the number on a ballot paper envelope includes, in the case of an envelope of the kind referred to in paragraph (1B)(c), a reference to the number that is displayed through the window in that envelope.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111503232/schedule/2/paragraph/20",
    "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."
}