{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voter-identification-regulations-2022/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voter-identification-regulations-2022/regulation-56.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1382",
  "legislation_title": "The Voter Identification Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voter-identification-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In article 2 (interpretation)\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after the definition of “absent voter” insert—\n““anonymous elector’s document” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Voter Identification Regulations 2022;”;\n(ii) omit the definitions of “the Assembly” and “Assembly election”;\n(iii) after the definition of “relevant registration officer” insert—\n““Senedd election” means an election to return a member of the Senedd Cymru for a Senedd constituency or an election to return members of the Senedd for a Senedd electoral region (or both);\n“temporary electoral identity document” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Voter Identification Regulations 2022;”;\n(b) in paragraphs (2A) and (2B)(a), for “an Assembly” substitute “a Senedd”;\n(c) in paragraph (2C)—\n(i) for “Assembly” in the first and third places it occurs, substitute “Senedd”;\n(ii) for “an Assembly” substitute “a Senedd”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 56 in force at 16.1.2023, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1382/regulation/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:30.041583+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."
}