{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/schedule-5/paragraph-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/schedule-5/paragraph-57.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1962/14",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/57",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Sealing up of ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) On the completion of the counting at a contested election the returning officer shall seal up in separate packets the counted and rejected ballot papers.\n(2) The returning officer shall not open the sealed packets of tendered ballot papers or of tendered postal ballot papers, or of the completed corresponding number lists, or of certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll, or of marked copies of the register of electors (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13BA(9) of the 1983 Act) and lists of proxies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 rule 57(2) inserted (15.9.2014) by The Anonymous Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1116), arts. 1(1), 6(13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 rule 57(2) substituted (16.12.2010) by Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 74 (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 rule 57(2) inserted (14.5.2008) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 33), ss. 30(1), 31(3), Sch. 4 para. 1(9); S.I. 2008/1318, art. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1962/14/schedule/5/paragraph/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:59.497504+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."
}