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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/devon-electoral-changes-order-2016/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/657",
  "legislation_title": "The Devon (Electoral Changes) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/devon-electoral-changes-order-2016",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Devon (Electoral Changes) Order 2016.\n(2) This article and article 2 come into force on the day after this Order is made.\n(3) Article 3 comes into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to the election of councillors, on the day after it is made;\n(b) for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2017.\n(4) The remainder of this Order comes into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to the election of councillors, on the day after it is made;\n(b) for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2019.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The ordinary day of election of councillors is prescribed by section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 c.2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/657/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:43.211654+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
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}