{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-14.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/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Certificates as to employment",
  "text": "(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may, in respect of the relevant elections, combine in a single form the certificate as to employment required by rule 32(3) of the AER with the certificate required by rule 29(3) of the LER.\n(2) If they do so—\n(a) the certificate must be in the form set out in Form 4;\n(b) the reference in rule 32(3) of the AER to a certificate “in the prescribed form” and the reference in rule 29(3) of the LER to a certificate “in the form in the Appendix” are instead each to be read as a reference to a certificate in the form set out in Form 4;\n(c) regulation 68(1) of the 2008 Regulations is to be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 29(3) was amended by S.I. 1987/168."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The relevant form in the Appendix, Form 9, was substituted by S.I. 2015/566 and amended by S.I. 2020/635."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 68(1) prescribes the relevant form as Form F in Schedule 3 to S.I. 2008/1741 (that form is modified for its use at Assembly elections by Schedule 2 to S.I. 2001/2599). Form F was substituted by S.I. 2015/221."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/14",
    "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."
}