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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/168",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For rule 28 of the local elections rules in Schedule 5 (declaration of secrecy) there shall be substituted:\n“Notification of requirement of secrecy\n28 The returning officer shall make such arrangements as he thinks fit to ensure that—\n(a) every person attending at a polling station (otherwise than for the purpose of voting or assisting a blind voter to vote or as a constable on duty there) has been given a copy in writing of the provisions of paragraph 27(1) and (3) of Schedule 9 and a statement of the penalty prescribed by section 111(2A)(d) (as inserted by paragraph 27 of Schedule 1 to the Local Elections (Norther Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987); and\n(b) every person attending at the counting of the votes (other than any constable on duty at the counting) has been given a copy in writing of the provisions of paragraph 27(2) of Schedule 9 and a statement of the penalty prescribed by section 111(2A)(d) (as inserted by paragraph 27 of Schedule 1 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The rules in Schedule 5 were substituted by Schedule 1 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/168/schedule/1/paragraph/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:06.477704+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."
}