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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-43",
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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/4/paragraph/43",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Sealing up of ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) Rule 65 is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) The local returning officer may not open the sealed packets of—\n(a) tendered ballot papers, or\n(b) certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll.”.\n(3) After that paragraph insert—\n“(3) The relevant returning or counting officer may not open the sealed packets of —\n(a) the completed corresponding number lists, or\n(b) marked copies of the registers of electors (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act) and lists of proxies”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525302/schedule/4/paragraph/43",
    "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."
}