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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-57",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111525302",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/57",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Sealing of packets",
  "text": "(1) As soon as practicable after the completion of the procedure under paragraph 56(3) and (4), the local returning officer must make up into separate packets the contents of—\n(a) the receptacle of rejected votes,\n(b) the receptacle of postal voting statements,\n(c) the receptacle of rejected ballot paper envelopes,\n(d) the lists of spoilt and lost postal ballot papers,\n(e) the receptacle of rejected votes (verification procedure), and\n(f) the receptacle of postal voting statements (verification procedure),\nand must seal up such packets.\n(2) Any document in those packets marked “provisionally rejected” is to be deemed to be marked “rejected”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525302/schedule/2/paragraph/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:38.206353+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."
}