{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-elections-combined-polls-2027-regulations-2026/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Official poll cards",
  "text": "(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may combine the official poll card for the relevant Assembly election with the official poll card for the relevant local election.\n(2) If they do so, rule 28(3) of the AER and rule 25(3) of the LER are, in respect of the relevant elections, to be read as permitting the Chief Electoral Officer to modify the prescribed form of the official poll card as necessary for the purpose of enabling the combination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 28(1) of the AER provides for an official poll card to be sent to electors and to their proxies in respect of an Assembly election. Rule 28(1) was substituted by paragraph 70 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 25(1) of the LER provides for an official poll card to be sent to electors and to their proxies in respect of a local election. Rule 25(1) was amended by S.I. 2010/2977 and 2014/1116."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Rule 28(3) was amended by paragraph 70 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Rule 25(3) was amended by S.I. 2010/2977."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Rule 28(3) of the AER and regulation 9 of S.I. 2008/1741 (that regulation was substituted by S.I. 2014/1808) prescribe that official poll cards in respect of Assembly elections are to be in the form set out in Forms A and B in Schedule 3 to those Regulations (subject to the modifications made by Schedule 2 to S.I. 2001/2599). Forms A and B were substituted by S.I. 2023/1116. Rule 25(3) of the LER prescribes that official polls cards in respect of local elections are to be in the form set out in the Appendix of Forms to those Rules. The relevant forms, Forms 6 and 7, were substituted by S.I. 2023/1083."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288179/regulation/9",
    "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."
}