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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008/regulation-70",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110814674",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/70",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 5",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“absent voters list” means the list kept under section 7(4) of the 1985 Act;\n“agent” includes the election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent’s place;\n“ballot paper envelope” and “covering envelope” means the envelopes referred to in regulation 78;\n“list of postal proxies” means the list kept under section 9(9) of the 1985 Act;\n“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;\n“postal voter” means an elector or proxy who is entitled to vote by post;\n“postal voters’ ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in regulation 83(1)(a);\n“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”, and other references to specified receptacles, means the receptacles referred to in regulation 83(5);\n“spoilt postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper referred to in regulation 81(1);\n“universal postal service provider” has the meaning given in the Postal Services Act 2000 to a “universal service provider”; and\n“valid declaration of identity” means one falling within regulation 87(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110814674/regulation/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:26.596223+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."
}