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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-3/paragraph-54",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1917",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/54",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Re-count",
  "text": "(1) A person within paragraph (3) who is present on completion of the counting (or any re-count) of the votes in a voting area may require that the votes be re-counted or again re-counted.\n(2) The local returning officer may refuse to have the votes re-counted if in the local returning officer's opinion the requirement is unreasonable.\n(3) The persons within this paragraph are—\n(a) the candidates;\n(b) the election agents;\n(c) the counting agents who, in relation to the count or re-count, are authorised under rule 31(2).\n(4) No step is to be taken on the completion of the counting (or any re-count) of votes until the persons within paragraph (3) who are present at its completion have been given a reasonable opportunity to exercise the right conferred by this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/3/paragraph/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:32.209917+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."
}