{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/schedule-NINTH/paragraph-25",
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  "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/NINTH/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If any person upon whom any functions are conferred by or under this Act in relation to any election. . . , without reasonable cause fails or neglects duly to perform those functions, he shall be guilty of an electoral offence.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the returning officer (“R”), fails or neglects to perform his or her functions in relation to an election under this Act, but\n(b) remedies that failure or neglect in full by taking steps under section 57A(1),\nR shall not be guilty of an electoral offence under sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) does not affect any conviction which takes place, or any penalty which is imposed, before the date on which the failure or neglect is remedied in full.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 25 renumbered (16.12.2010) as Sch. 9 para. 25(1) by Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 37 (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1989 c. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 25(2)(3) inserted (16.12.2010) by Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 37 (with art. 1(3))"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}