{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wales-act-2017-consequential-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wales-act-2017-consequential-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/272",
  "legislation_title": "The Wales Act 2017 (Consequential and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wales-act-2017-consequential-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "(1) The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 26 (applications for registration)—\n(a) in paragraph (9) for the words from the beginning to “Cabinet Office” substitute “Where, by virtue of arrangements made by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, an application under paragraph (1) may be made through the digital service, the Minister”;\n(b) for paragraph (10) substitute—\n“(10) Where an application in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration under paragraph (1) is made through the digital service, a registration officer may, but need not, accept it.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341, relevant amending instruments are S.I.s 2013/3198 and 2016/997."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/272/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:01:07.361579+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."
}