{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348240566",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, extent and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations—\n(a) may be cited as the Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022;\n(b) extend to England and Wales; and\n(c) come into force the day after the day on which they are made.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply for the purposes of an election for the return of a local authority mayor in respect of which the date of the poll specified in the notice of election is before the ordinary day of election in 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) for the meaning of “ordinary day of election”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348240566/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:44:24.158455+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."
}