{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-7/paragraph-45",
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  "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/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Issue of official poll cards",
  "text": "(1) The counting officer must as soon as practicable after each publication of the business voting register under paragraph 30(1) of Schedule 6 send an official poll card to each named voter who has chosen to vote in person.\n(2) The official poll card must be sent or delivered to the address shown on the voters list.\n(3) The official poll card must be in the form set out in Form 5 in the Appendix, or a form to like effect, and must set out—\n(a) the name of the relevant council and of the neighbourhood area;\n(b) the name of the named voter, the business vote holder on whose behalf they are voting and the number on the business voting register;\n(c) the date and hours of the poll and the situation of the named voter’s polling station;\n(d) such other information as the counting officer thinks appropriate,\nand different information may be provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (d) to different named voters or to different descriptions of named voter.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/7/paragraph/45",
    "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."
}