{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2023/article-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348251142",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2023",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Forms used in local elections",
  "text": "(1) In the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, in Schedule 5 (local election rules)—\n(a) replace Form 6 (elector’s official poll card) with the form in Schedule 1;\n(b) replace Form 7 (proxy’s official poll card) with the form in Schedule 2.\n(2) In the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (voting by post, by proxy and by post as proxy), in the Appendix, replace Form 1 (Proxy paper) with the form in Schedule 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 5 was substituted in its entirety by S.I. 1985/454."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Form 6 was replaced by S.I. 2015/566."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Form 7 was replaced by S.I. 2015/566."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/454."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The Appendix to Part 1 of Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 1987/168 and amended by S.I. 2005/1969, S.I. 2010/2977 (including re-numbering the forms), S.I. 2014/116 and S.I. 2015/566."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Form 1 was replaced by S.I. 2015/566."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348251142/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:42:59.000297+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."
}