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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2013/article-10",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111105481",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2013",
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  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Combination of polls",
  "text": "(1) Where the poll at a local election is taken together with the poll at a European Parliamentary election (under section 15(1) or (2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985), Schedule 5 to the 1962 Act (local elections rules) and Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the 1985 Order (issue and receipt of ballot papers) have effect subject to the modifications in the Schedule.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply when the poll at a local election is taken together with the poll at a parliamentary election.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50; section 15 was amended by section 3 of the European Communities (Amendments) Act 1986 (c. 58) and section 3 of the Elections Act 2001 (c. 7)."
    }
  ],
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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."
}