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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-ballot-paper-regulations-2013/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111101599",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Ballot Paper) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-ballot-paper-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Representation of the People (Ballot Paper) Regulations 2013 and come into force on the day on which section 14 of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 comes into force.\n(2) In these Regulations “the Appendix” means the Appendix to the parliamentary elections rules in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2013 c.6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111101599/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:16.379564+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."
}