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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-43",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/219",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/43",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Opening of ballot paper envelopes",
  "text": "Regulation 86 of the relevant regulations (opening of ballot paper envelopes) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if, in paragraph (1), for “returning officer” there were substituted “counting officer”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 43 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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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."
}