{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-29.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/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Opening of the last postal voters’ ballot box and the last postal ballot box",
  "text": "In respect of the relevant elections, the following provisions are instead each to be read as if they provided for the last postal voters’ ballot box and the last postal ballot box to be opened at the proceedings under regulation 24 of these Regulations—\n(a) regulation 85(3) of the 2008 Regulations;\n(b) paragraph 16(3) of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the 1985 Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 16 was substituted by S.I. 2002/2835 and sub-paragraph (3) was amended by S.I. 2010/2977."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/29",
    "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."
}