{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-voter-identification-amendment-of-list-of-specified-documents-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348285642",
  "legislation_title": "The Voter Identification (Amendment of List of Specified Documents) (Local Elections) (Northern Ireland) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-voter-identification-amendment-of-list-of-specified-documents-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of rule 34(6) of Local Elections Rules",
  "text": "(1) Rule 34(6) of Schedule 5 to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (Local Elections Rules: voting procedure and voter identification requirements) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) a passport or passport card issued by a country listed in Schedule 3 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (countries whose citizens are Commonwealth citizens);”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (m) insert—\n“(n) an identity card bearing the Proof of Age Standards Scheme hologram (a PASS card);\n(o) a badge of a form prescribed under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 or section 14 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (Blue Badge Scheme);\n(p) a Ministry of Defence Form 100 (HM Armed Forces Veteran Card).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 14 (N.I.). Schedule 5 was substituted by S.I. 1985/454."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 34(6)(b) was amended by S.I. 2010/2977 and 2022/47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1981 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Rule 34(6)(m) was inserted by paragraph 14 of Schedule 6 to the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1970 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1978 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348285642/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:01.241883+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."
}