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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-england-and-wales-regulations-2001/regulation-65",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110190513",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-england-and-wales-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/65",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Combination of polls",
  "text": "Where the polls at elections are taken together under—\n(a) subsection (1) or (2) of section 15 of the 1985 Act (combination of polls at parliamentary, European Parliamentary and local government elections), or\n(b) subsection (3) or (3AB) of section 36 of the 1983 Act (combination of polls at local elections),\nthe proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers in respect of each election may, if the returning officers concerned agree, be taken together.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 36(3) was substituted by section 17 of the 1985 Act and section 36(3B) was inserted by Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110190513/regulation/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:14.595617+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."
}