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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-54",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3304",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/54",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Retention of documents",
  "text": "The relevant registration officer must retain for one year all documents relating to an election forwarded to him in pursuance of these Rules by a returning officer, and then, unless otherwise directed by an order of a county court, a Crown Court, a magistrates’ court or an election court, must cause them to be destroyed.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3304/schedule/2/paragraph/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:11.237089+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."
}