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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110796861",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends Part I of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 and extends to Northern Ireland only. That Part provides for absent voting applications for local elections in Northern Ireland.\nParagraph 11 of that Part sets out the time by which applications relating to absent voting must be received by the registration officer in order to be effective at a particular election. Article 3 of this Order brings forward the deadline for most such applications from 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before the day of the poll to 5 p.m. on the fourteenth working day. Article 2(a) makes a consequential amendment.\nSub-paragraphs (4) to (7) of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1985 Order concern applications for an absent vote at a particular election which are made on grounds relating to health. Article 2(b) requires the person attesting such an application to state that he has seen the applicant in connection with the circumstances relating to the applicant’s health on which the application is based.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110796861/note",
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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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