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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110657071",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Authority (Referendum) Order 1998",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“the 1985 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n“counting agents” and “election agents” means the persons appointed as such for the purposes of the ordinary election;\n“the ordinary election” means the ordinary election of councillors for any electoral ward of a London borough the poll at which is to be taken together with the poll at the referendum;\n“the election rules” means the rules set out in Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules 1986;\n“the referendum rules” means those rules insofar as they are applied, with or without modifications, in relation to the referendum by article 12; and\nexcept where the context otherwise requires a reference to a numbered rule is a reference to the rule bearing that number in both the election rules and the referendum rules.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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