{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-east-sussex-electoral-changes-order-2016/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111150726",
  "legislation_title": "The East Sussex (Electoral Changes) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-east-sussex-electoral-changes-order-2016",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the East Sussex (Electoral Changes) Order 2016.\n(2) This article and article 2 come into force on the day after the day on which this Order is made.\n(3) Article 3 and the Schedule come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary, or relating, to the election of councillors, on the day after the day on which the Order is made;\n(b) for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of election of councillors in England and Wales in 2017.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The ordinary day of election of councillors is prescribed by section 37(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2)."
    }
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  "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."
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