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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-communities-welsh-forms-order-2007/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-communities-welsh-forms-order-2007/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1013",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Communities) (Welsh Forms) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-communities-welsh-forms-order-2007",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Welsh and English versions of forms and a form of words for use at combined polls",
  "text": "(1) Each of the forms listed in subparagraphs (a) to (i) and set out in Schedule 5 to this Order is prescribed as the version partly in Welsh and partly in English, of the forms in the Appendix to Schedule 3 to the 2006 Rules, which must be used at a community council election taken together with the poll at a relevant election or referendum in place of—\n(a) in the case of form 1, the corresponding number list (M1);\n(b) in the case of form 2, the corresponding number lists (M2);\n(c) in the case of form 3, the form of postal voting statement (for use where there is a joint issue and receipt of postal ballot papers);\n(d) in the case of form 4, the form of postal voting statement (for use when a local government poll is combined with another poll but the postal ballot papers are not combined);\n(e) in the case of form 5, the official poll card;\n(f) in the case of form 6, the official postal poll card;\n(g) in the case of form 7, the official proxy poll card;\n(h) in the case of form 8, the official proxy postal poll card; and\n(i) in case of form 9, form of certificate of employment.\n(2) Form 10 is prescribed as the form of words partly in Welsh and partly in English, which must be used at a community council election taken together with a relevant election or referendum in place of the words of the notice prescribed by rule 26(8) of Schedule 3 to the 2006 Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/919",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Communities) (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/919",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Communities) (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2014"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1013/article/9",
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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."
}