{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-12",
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  "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/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Guidance to be exhibited at polling stations",
  "text": "(1) A notice in the form set out in Form 3 giving directions for the guidance of the voters in voting at each of the relevant elections—\n(a) must be printed in conspicuous characters, and\n(b) must be exhibited outside each polling station used for the relevant elections and in every compartment of each polling station.\n(2) In respect of the relevant elections, the following provisions are to be disregarded—\n(a) rule 29(4) and (5) of the AER (and the relevant form in the Appendix of Forms to the AER);\n(b) rule 26(4) of the LER (and the relevant form in the Appendix of Forms to the LER).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Appendix is modified in its application to Assembly elections by Schedule 1 to S.I. 2001/2599, and the relevant form is found in the Appendix to that Schedule. That form was substituted by S.I. 2015/222."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The relevant form in the Appendix, Form 8, was substituted by S.I. 2015/566."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/12",
    "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."
}