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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-64K",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-64K.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/64K",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "64K",
  "heading": "Counting of first preference votes",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer must sort the valid ballot papers into groups according to the candidates for whom first preference votes are given.\n(2) The returning officer must then—\n(a) count the number of ballot papers in each group, and\n(b) record those numbers.\n(3) The returning officer must also ascertain and record the total number of valid ballot papers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 4A inserted (9.10.2023) by The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Single Transferable Vote) (Wales) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1064), rules 1(2), 8(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/1459/schedule/2/paragraph/64K",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:54.669941+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."
}