{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-england-and-wales-regulations-2001/regulation-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-england-and-wales-regulations-2001/regulation-79.json",
  "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/79",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Alternative means of returning postal ballot paper or declaration of identity",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of rule 45(1B) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act the manner in which a postal ballot paper or declaration of identity may be returned to a polling station is by hand.\n(2) For these purposes, the manner in which such a paper or declaration may be returned to the returning officer is by post or by hand.\n(3) The presiding officer of the polling station shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, any postal ballot paper or declaration of identity returned to that station to the returning officer in the same manner and at the same time as he delivers, or causes to be delivered, the packets referred to in rule 43(1) of the elections rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 45(1B) was inserted by paragraph 10(4)(a) of Schedule 6 to the 2000 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110190513/regulation/79",
    "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."
}