{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2013/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2013/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111105481",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Modification of the Local Elections Rules",
  "text": "Rule 16 (ballot papers) applies as if in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (c) there were inserted—\n“(ca) must be of a different colour from that of any ballot paper used at the European Parliamentary election;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 16 was amended by S.I. 1987/168; S.I. 2001/417; Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22); and S.I. 2010/2977. Note that paragraph (2)(d) was omitted by S.I. 2010/2977. In addition, section 4 of, and the Schedule to, the Elections Act 2001 (c. 7) made a non-textual amendment when local elections are combined with parliamentary elections."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111105481/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:14:37.098968+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."
}