{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348288179",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Elections (Combined Polls 2027) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Ballot boxes",
  "text": "(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may use the same ballot boxes for the relevant elections.\n(2) If they use separate ballot boxes for each relevant election, each ballot box must be clearly marked to show—\n(a) the election for which it is being used, and\n(b) the colour of the ballot papers that should be placed into it.\n(3) If they use separate ballot boxes for each relevant election, the placing of a ballot paper relating to one relevant election into the ballot box used for the other relevant election does not render it invalid.\n(4) In this regulation, references to ballot boxes include references to postal voters’ ballot boxes and postal ballot boxes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 29(1) of the AER requires the returning officer to provide ballot boxes for use at an Assembly election. Rule 26(1) of the LER makes equivalent provision for local elections."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 83(1) of S.I. 2008/1741 requires that separate postal voters’ ballot boxes and postal ballot boxes be provided for the receipt of postal voting documents for Assembly elections. Paragraph 14(1) of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1985/454 makes equivalent provision for local elections."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:41.261110+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."
}