{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-brokers-registration-council-election-scheme-approval-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-brokers-registration-council-election-scheme-approval-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3030",
  "legislation_title": "The Insurance Brokers Registration Council Election Scheme Approval Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-brokers-registration-council-election-scheme-approval-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Immediately after the polling day the Returning Officer shall:—\n(a) ascertain the validity of the votes by examination of the Declarations of Identity in the outer envelopes;\n(b) when the Declarations are in order withdraw the inner envelopes from the outer envelopes and, without opening or marking them, collect them in some place away from the outer envelopes;\n(c) withdraw the voting papers from the inner envelopes; and\n(d) count the votes validly cast for each candidate.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph a vote shall be deemed to have been validly cast if, but only if, it has been cast in accordance with paragraph 20 of this Scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3030/schedule/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:48.578061+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."
}