{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2001/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110190637",
  "legislation_title": "Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1962 Act” means the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, and\n“the local elections rules” means the rules in Schedule 5 to that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 14 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 5 was substituted by the Schedule in Schedule 1 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110190637/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:12.135417+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."
}