{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111503232",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010.\n(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.\n(3) This Order does not apply to an election to fill a casual vacancy in a district council that occurred (within the meaning of section 11(5) of the 1962 Act) on or before the day on which this Order comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c.14 (N.I.); section 11(5) was amended by S.I. 1992/810 (N.I.6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111503232/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:54:34.201486+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."
}