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|short_title          = European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc.) Regulations 2016
|type                 = Statutory Instrument
|parliament           = Parliament of the United Kingdom
|year                 = 2016
|citation             = 2016 No. 278
|introduced_by        = [[David Lidington]], [[Minister of State for Europe]]
|territorial_extent   = United Kingdom<br />(England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)<br />[[Gibraltar]]<br />(by implication of the wording of long title and Section 4 of the [[European Union Referendum Act 2015]])
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The '''European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc.) Regulations 2016 (No. 278)''' is a [[Statutory Instrument]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] that made legal provision under the provisions of the [[European Union Referendum Act 2015]] for the nationwide referendum to be held across the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Gibraltar]] on the issue of continued membership to the [[European Union]] on the appointed day of Thursday 23 June 2016 with a ten-week  campaigning period leading up to date of the poll to begin on Friday 15 April 2016 and end on Polling day. The Statutory Instrument was made following the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Prime Minister]] [[David Cameron|David Cameron's]] official announcement on Saturday 20 February 2016 in [[Downing Street]] that the referendum was to be held on that date and came into force on 4 March 2016.<ref>{{cite news |title= European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc.) Regulations 2016 |author=UK legislation |url= https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/278/contents/made |date=3 March 2016 |access-date=21 June 2020}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum]]
* [[The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016]]
* [[European Union Referendum Act 2015]]
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[[Category:2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum]]
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