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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-assembly-elections-amendment-order-2010/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111503256",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-assembly-elections-amendment-order-2010",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2010.\n(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.\n(3) In this Order—\n“1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983;\n“2001 Order” means the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001; and\n“2008 Regulations” means the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008.\n(4) In this Order a reference to a “rule” is a reference to the Parliamentary elections rules or the relevant Parliamentary election rule contained in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/2599 was amended by S.I. 2002/1964, S.I. 2003/2989, S.I. 2007/308 and S.I. 2009/256."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/1741 was amended by S.I. 2010/278."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Relevant changes to the rules are referenced at the appropriate places in this Order."
    }
  ],
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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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