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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-combined-authorities-mayoral-elections-order-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111151815",
  "legislation_title": "The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-combined-authorities-mayoral-elections-order-2017",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The Representation of the People Act 1985",
  "text": "(1) The Representation of the People Act 1985 has effect in relation to the conduct of a combined authority mayoral election with the following modifications.\n(2) Section 15 (combination of polls at parliamentary, European Parliamentary and local elections) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsection (1), at the end of paragraph (c), there were inserted—\n“(ca) a combined authority mayoral election and an election of one or more of the descriptions specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) or a local authority mayoral election,”.\n(b) subsections (5) and (5A) were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50. Relevant amendments were made by the Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), section 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111151815/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:07:27.160495+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."
}