{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-17",
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  "legislation": "asc/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Representation of the People (Combination of Polls) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 4(10), in the definition of “relevant enactment”, in paragraph (b)—\n(a) omit “(3AB) or”;\n(b) after ”(3AC)” insert “ , or section 36B(1) ”.\n(3) In regulation 5(1)—\n(a) in paragraph (c), after “election” insert “ in England, ”;\n(b) after paragraph (c) insert—\n“(ca) at a local government election in Wales, by those rules in the rules made under section 36A of the 1983 Act which correspond to the rules specified in paragraph (2);”.\n(4) In regulation 6—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(c)—\n(i) after “section 36” insert “ of the 1983 Act ”;\n(ii) omit “and Wales”;\n(iii) before “of the 1983 ” insert “ and subsections (1) to (3) of section 36C ”;\n(iv) after “Act” insert “ (local elections in Wales) ”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) after “section 36(6)” insert “ and section 36C(3) ”;\n(c) in paragraph (4)—\n(i) omit “, (3AB)”;\n(ii) after “(3AC)” insert “ or section 36B(1) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 17 in force at 20.3.2021, see s. 175(3)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/schedule/2/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:57.648401+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."
}