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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-48",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1962",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Rejection of cancelled ballot papers",
  "text": "If at any stage in the procedures mentioned in this Part a cancelled ballot paper is found, but no security statement bearing the same ballot number is also found, the cancelled ballot paper shall be marked “rejected” and placed in the receptacle for cancelled ballot papers together with any ballot paper envelope which bears the same ballot number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2085",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2011 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) Order 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1962/schedule/1/paragraph/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:21:20.497923+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."
}