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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-7/paragraph-72",
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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/72",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Delivery of documents to business registration officer",
  "text": "The counting officer must then forward to the business registration officer the following documents—\n(a) the packets of ballot papers in the counting officer’s possession;\n(b) the ballot paper accounts and the statements of rejected ballot papers and of the result of the verification of the ballot paper accounts;\n(c) the tendered votes lists, the lists of named voters with disabilities assisted by companions, the lists of votes marked by the presiding officer and the related statements, the lists maintained under rule 60, and the declarations made by the companions of named voters with disabilities;\n(d) the packets of the completed corresponding number lists;\n(e) the packets of certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll; and\n(f) the packets containing marked copies of business voting registers and voters lists,\nendorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the date of the business referendum, the words “neighbourhood planning business referendum” and the name of the neighbourhood area to which the business referendum relates.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/7/paragraph/72",
    "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."
}