{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-rules-1987/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-rules-1987/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Returning officer",
  "text": "(1) If a poll consequent on a parish or community meeting is required to be taken, the chairman of the meeting shall notify the district council in which the parish or community is situate of the fact and that council shall appoint an officer of the council to be returning officer.\n(2) The chairman of the meeting shall give the returning officer such particulars as will enable him to give notice of the poll.\n(3) The returning officer shall appoint an office for the purpose of the poll.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:34:31.826079+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."
}