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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/article-6",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110494687",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Application and modification of enactments relating to elections",
  "text": "(1) The provisions set out in column (1) of the Tables in Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 2 shall have effect in relation to a referendum with the modifications shown against those provisions in column (2) of those Tables; and in particular, except where the context otherwise requires—\n(a) a reference to an election shall be construed as a reference to a referendum;\n(b) a reference to a returning officer or acting returning officer shall be construed as a reference to the counting officer;\n(c) a reference to a constituency, an electoral area, division or ward shall be construed as a reference to a voting area;\n(d) a reference to voting for, or a vote for, a candidate shall be construed as a reference to voting for, or a vote for, a referendum answer;\n(e) a reference to promoting or procuring the election of a candidate, or furthering a person’s candidature, shall be construed as a reference to promoting or procuring a particular referendum answer;\n(f) references to nomination papers and, except as mentioned in sub-paragraphs (d) and (e), references to candidates, shall be ignored;\n(g) a reference to the return of a person shall be construed as a reference to a particular referendum answer;\n(h) a reference to a person voting as an elector shall be construed as a reference to a person voting on his own behalf;\n(i) a reference to a person’s entitlement as an elector to an absent vote shall be construed as a reference to a person’s entitlement to vote by post on his own behalf or to vote by proxy;\n(j) a reference to an election agent shall be construed as a reference to a referendum agent;\n(k) a reference to anything being prescribed shall be construed as a reference to its being provided for by a provision of subordinate legislation applied by this Order;\n(l) a form which is required to be used may be used with such variations as the circumstances may require;\n(m) a reference to the registration officer is a reference to the relevant registration officer appointed under section 8 (registration officers) or 203(4) (application to Isles of Scilly) of the 1983 Act;\n(n) any reference to an enactment or instrument made under an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment or instrument as applied and modified (where applicable) by this Order; and\n(o) so much of any provision as—\n(i) relates to an election petition or an election court; or\n(ii) applies only in relation to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland,\nshall be ignored.\n(2) The form shown in Part 4 of Schedule 2 shall have effect as the form of proxy paper for the appointment of a proxy at a particular Regional Assembly referendum or particular combined referendums.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110494687/article/6",
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  },
  "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."
}