{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-28",
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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/4/paragraph/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Return of postal ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) Rule 33 is modified as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) Where proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are taken together in respect of combined polls and—\n(a) a postal vote has been returned in respect of a person who is entered in the postal voters list, or\n(b) a proxy postal vote has been returned in respect of a proxy who is entered in the proxy postal voters list,\nthe relevant returning or counting officer must mark the list in the manner specified in paragraph 48 of Schedule 2.”\n(3) After that paragraph insert—\n“(1A) Where proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are not taken together in respect of combined polls, the reference in paragraph (1) to “the relevant returning or counting officer” is to be read as a reference to “the local returning officer”.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/4/paragraph/28",
    "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."
}