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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-51.json",
  "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/51",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Lists of rejected ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) In respect of any referendum, the counting officer shall keep two separate lists of rejected ballot papers.\n(2) In the first list, he shall record the ballot number of any ballot paper for which no valid security statement was received.\n(3) In the second list, he shall record the ballot number of any ballot paper which is entered on a valid security statement where that ballot paper is not received with the security statement.",
  "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/51",
    "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."
}