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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-act-2004-overseas-relationships-and-consequential-etc-amendments-order-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/011073078X",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-act-2004-overseas-relationships-and-consequential-etc-amendments-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Representation of the People Act 1985",
  "text": "(1) The Representation of the People Act 1985 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 6 (absent vote at elections for an indefinite period), in subsection (2)(c), after “spouse” (in each place) insert “or civil partner”.\n(3) In section 8 (proxies at elections), in subsection (5), for “husband, wife” substitute “spouse or civil partner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50. Sections 12(2) and 15(2) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2) repealed sections 6 and 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 in relation to England, Scotland and Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The words from “or by reason” to “of his spouse” were inserted by section 15(1) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Representation of the People Act 2000."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/011073078X/schedule/4/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:06.485636+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."
}