{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-14.json",
  "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": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Procedure on issue of ballot packs",
  "text": "(1) The counting officer shall issue ballot packs—\n(a) to those proxies included in the list of proxies, and a mark shall be placed—\n(i) in that list against the name of each proxy, and\n(ii) in the register of electors against the number of the elector for whom the proxy is appointed,\nto denote that a ballot pack for the referendum has been issued to the proxy; and\n(b) to each elector in the register of electors against whose number no mark has been placed, and a mark shall be placed against his number to denote that a ballot pack for the referendum has been issued.\n(2) Where ballot papers are issued for combined polls a mark made under paragraph (1) shall denote that ballot papers have been issued in respect of each of the referendums.\n(3) The ballot number that appears on the ballot paper and security statement issued to an elector or proxy shall be recorded in relation to the number of the elector or in the case of a proxy, the number of the elector for whom he is appointed and that record and the lists and register referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall together comprise the list of ballot numbers issued (referred to in these Rules as “the list of ballot numbers issued”).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110494687/schedule/1/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:43.165722+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."
}