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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2018/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111163016",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2018.\n(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.\n(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Gibraltar.\n(4) These Regulations have effect in relation to—\n(a) seats that are vacant at the time that these Regulations come into force but in respect of which a notice of by-election has not been published by that time; and\n(b) seats that become vacant on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force.\n(5) In these Regulations, “the Principal Regulations” means the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/293."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111163016/regulation/1",
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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."
}