{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-19.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/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Declarations made by companions assisting voters with disabilities",
  "text": "(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may direct that, in respect of the relevant elections, there be a single form for the declaration made by the companion of a voter with disabilities under rule 39(2)(b) of the AER and the declaration under rule 36(2)(b) of the LER.\n(2) If they do so—\n(a) the declaration must be in the form set out in Form 5;\n(b) rule 39(5)(a) of the AER and rule 36(5)(a) of the LER are each to be read as if the reference to a declaration “in the form in the Appendix” was instead a reference to a declaration in the form set out in Form 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 39 of the parliamentary elections rules was substituted by section 13 of the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2). Rule 39(2)(b) was amended by section 9(3) of the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 36(2)(b) was amended by paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Schedule 1 to S.I. 2001/2599 was amended by S.I. 2015/222 with the effect that, in its application to Assembly elections, the relevant form for the purposes of rule 39 is found in the Appendix to Schedule 1. That form was amended by paragraph 46 of Schedule 6 to the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Rule 36 was substituted by S.I. 2001/417. The relevant form in the Appendix, Form 10, was substituted by S.I. 2015/566 and amended by S.I. 2020/635 and by paragraph 22 of Schedule 6 to the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/19",
    "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."
}