{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Countermand or abandonment of poll",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if, in accordance with rule 60(4) or 63(2) of the AER or rule 61(4) or 63(2) of the LER, the notice of the poll at a relevant election is countermanded or the poll is directed to be abandoned.\n(2) The countermand or direction does not affect the poll at the other relevant election.\n(3) In respect of the relevant elections, rule 65(2) of the AER and rule 64(2) of the LER are to be read as if the requirements imposed on the presiding officer did not arise until the close of the poll at the relevant election that has not been abandoned.\n(4) The procedures required by rule 65(3) to (6) of the AER or rule 64(3) to (6) of the LER are, in respect of the relevant elections, to be applied after the conclusion of the proceedings under regulation 24 of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rules 60 to 65 were substituted by section 24 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Rule 60(4) was amended in its application to Assembly elections by an amendment of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2001/2599 made by S.I. 2010/2892."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rules 61 to 64 were substituted by S.I. 2010/2977."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/26",
    "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."
}