{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-7/paragraph-30E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-7/paragraph-30E.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2031",
  "legislation_title": "The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/30E",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30E",
  "heading": "Opening of delivered or collected packets of postal voting documents",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies to the packets of postal voting documents delivered to or collected by the returning officer in accordance with rule 27(3) or (4) or 30A(1).\n(2) Rules 28, 29(6), 31(1) and 32 apply to a packet to which this paragraph applies as if that packet were a postal voters’ ballot box.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 inserted (6.4.2013) by The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/798), regs. 1, 7, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 rules 30A-30E inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), reg. 9(5)(e)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/7/paragraph/30E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:23:04.114380+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."
}