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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-assembly-elections-order-2001/schedule-1n1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110296362",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-northern-ireland-assembly-elections-order-2001",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "APPLICATION WITH MODIFICATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF THE 1983 ACT, THE ELECTIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ACT 1985 AND THE 1985 ACT",
  "text": "Provision applied\nModifications\nTHE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983\nIn section 18 (polling districts and places at parliamentary elections), subsections (1), (7) and (9)\nSection 23 (rules for parliamentary elections)\nSection 29 (payments by and to returning officer)\nOmit subsection (1) and (2).\nIn subsection (5), for the words from “charged on” to “before”, substitute “paid by the Secretary of State on an account being submitted to him, but he may, if he thinks fit, before”.\nOmit subsection (6).\nOmit subsection (9).\nSection 30 (taxation of returning officer’s account)\nSection 49 (effect of registers)\nIn subsection (5)(b)(iv) for “a local government” substitute “an”.\nSection 50 (effect of misdescription)\nIn section 52 (discharge of registration duties), subsection (5)\nOmit the words from “Subsection” to “but”.\nSection 54 (payment of registration expenses)\nSection 60 (personation)\nSection 61 (other voting offences)\nIn paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) omit the words “or at parliamentary or local government elections” and “or, as the case may be, at elections of that kind”.\nSection 63 (breach of official duty)\nIn subsection (3)—\n(a) omit paragraphs (a) and (c);\n(b) in paragraph (b) omit the words “sheriff clerk”; and\n(c) in paragraph (e) for the words “(a) to (d)” substitute “(b) and (d)”.\nSection 65 (tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers etc.)\nSection 65A (false statements in nomination papers etc.)\nSection 66 (requirement of secrecy)\nSection 66A (prohibition on publication of exit polls)\nSection 67 (appointment of election agent)\nSection 68 (nomination of sub-agent at parliamentary elections)\nSection 69 (office of election agent and sub-agent)\nSection 70 (effect of default in election agent’s appointment)\nSection 71A (control of donations to candidates)\nSection 73 (payment of expenses through election agent)\nSection 74 (candidate’s personal expenses and petty expenses)\nSection 74A (expenses incurred otherwise than for election purposes)\nSection 75 (prohibition of expenses not authorised by election agent)\nOmit subsection (4).\nSection 76 (limitation of election expenses)\nSection 77 (expenses limit for joint candidates at local election)\nIn subsection (1), for the words “a local government” substitute “an Assembly”.\nSection 78 (time for sending in and paying claims)\nSection 79 (disputed claims)\nSection 80 (election agent’s claim)\nSection 81 (return as to election expenses)\nSection 82 (declarations as to election expenses)\nSection 83 (where no return and declarations needed at parliamentary elections)\nSection 84 (penalty for failure as respects returns or declarations)\nSection 86 (authorised excuses for failures as to return and declarations)\nSection 87 (court’s power to require information from election agent or sub-agent)\nSection 87A (duty of appropriate officer to forward returns and declarations to Electoral Commission)\nOmit subsection (1) and in subsection (2) for the words from “any election” to “above” substitute “an Assembly election”.\nSection 88 (publication of time and place for inspection of returns and declarations)\nSection 89 (inspection of returns and declarations)\nIn subsections (1) and (2), for the words “two years”, in each place where they occur, substitute “12 months”.\nSection 90A (meaning of election expenses)\nSection 90B (incurring of election expenses for the purpose of section 90A)\nSection 90C (property, goods and services etc. provided free of charge or at a discount)\nSection 91 (candidate’s right to send election address post free)\nSection 92 (broadcasting from outside United Kingdom)\nSection 93 (broadcasting of local items during election period)\nOmit any reference to Sianel Pedwar Cymru.\nFor subsection (5), substitute the following subsection:\n“(5) For the purposes of subsection (1) “the election period” in relation to an Assembly election means the period beginning with the last date on which notice of election may be published in accordance with the elections rules and ending with the date of the poll.”.\nSection 94 (imitation poll cards)\nSection 97 (disturbances at election meetings)\nFor subsection (2), substitute the following subsection:\n“(2) This section applies to a political meeting held in any constituency in connection with an Assembly election on any date between the last date on which notice of an election may be published in accordance with the elections rules and the date of the poll.”.\nSection 98 (premises not affected for rates)\nSection 99 (officials not to act for candidates)\nSection 100 (illegal canvassing by police officers)\nSection 106 (false statements as to candidates)\nSection 107 (corrupt withdrawal from candidature)\nSection 109 (payments for exhibition of election notices)\nSection 110 (printer’s name and address on election publications)\nSection 111 (prohibition of paid canvassers)\nSection 112 (providing money for illegal purposes)\nSection 113 (bribery)\nSection 114 (treating)\nSection 115 (undue influence)\nSection 116 (rights of creditors)\nSection 117 (savings as to parliamentary elections)\nSection 118 (interpretation of Part II)\nSection 118A (meaning of candidate)\nIn subsection (2)—\n(a) for “Parliament” substitute “the Assembly” and\n(b) for the words “the writ for the election is issued” substitute “the election is held”.\nSection 119 (computation of time for purposes of Part II)\nSection 120 (method of questioning parliamentary election)\nSection 121 (presentation and service of parliamentary election petition)\nSection 122 (time for presentation or amendment of parliamentary election petition)\nIn subsection (1), for the words from “the return” to the end substitute “the day on which the relevant result was declared in accordance with rule 50 of the elections rules”.\nIn subsection (2), for the words “that return” substitute “that declaration of the result of the election”.\nSection 123 (constitution of election court and place of trial)\nSection 124 (judges' expenses and reception: England and Wales and Northern Ireland)\nFor “the Treasury” substitute “the Secretary of State”.\nSection 126 (attendance of the House of Commons shorthand writer)\nIn subsection (1), for the words “The shorthand writer of the House of Commons or his deputy” substitute “A shorthand writer”.\nIn subsection (2), for the word “Speaker” substitute “Chief Electoral Officer”.\nIn subsection (3), omit the words “In Scotland” and for the words “section 125” substitute “section 124”.\nSection 136 (security for costs)\nSection 137 (petition at issue)\nSection 138 (list of petitions)\nIn subsection (3), omit the words from the beginning of the subsection to “local government Act”.\nSection 139 (trial of petition)\nIn subsection (3) omit the words from “the acceptance” to “notwithstanding”, in the third place where it occurs.\nSection 140 (witnesses)\nSection 141 (duty to answer relevant questions)\nSection 143 (expenses of witnesses)\nSection 144 (conclusion of trial of parliamentary election petition)\nIn subsections (2), (4) and (6), for the word “Speaker”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “Chief Electoral Officer”.\nOmit subsections (5) and (7).\nSection 146 (special case for determination of High Court)\nIn subsection (2), for the word “Speaker” substitute “Chief Electoral Officer”.\nSection 147 (withdrawal of petition)\nSection 154 (costs of petition)\nSection 155 (neglect or refusal to pay costs)\nSection 156 (further provision as to costs)\nSection 157 (appeals and jurisdiction)\nFor subsection (2), substitute the following subsection:\n“(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made under it, the principles, practice and rules on which election courts act in dealing with parliamentary election petitions shall be observed, so far as may be, by the High Court and election court in the case of election petitions relating to Assembly elections.”.\nSection 158 (report as to candidate guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice)\nSection 159 (candidate reported guilty of corrupt or illegal practice)\nSection 160 (persons reported personally guilty of corrupt or illegal practices)\nIn subsection (4)—\n(a) after the word “Kingdom” insert “or local election”; and\n(b) after the word “Commons”, in each place where it occurs, insert “or the Assembly”.\nOmit subsection (6)\nSection 161 (justice of the peace)\nSection 162 (member of legal and certain other professions)\nSection 163 (holder of licence or certificate under the Licensing Acts)\nSection 164 (avoidance of election for general corruption etc.)\nSection 165 (avoidance of election for employing corrupt agent)\nIn section 166 (votes to be struck off for corrupt or illegal practices) subsections (2) and (3)\nSection 167 (application for relief)\nSection 168 (prosecutions for corrupt practices)\nSection 169 (prosecutions for illegal practices)\nSection 170 (conviction of illegal practice on charge of corrupt practice etc.)\nSection 173 (incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice)\nIn subsection (1)—\n(a) after the word “Kingdom” insert “or local election”; and\n(b) after the word “Commons”, in each place where it occurs, insert “or the Assembly”.\nIn subsection (7)—\n(a) for the words from “House” to “elective office” substitute “Assembly”; and\n(b) for the words from “Parliament” to “that office” substitute “the Assembly”.\nOmit subsection (10).\nSection 174 (mitigation and remission etc.)\nSection 175 (illegal payments etc.)\nSection 176 (time limit for prosecutions)\nSection 178 (prosecution of offences committed outside United Kingdom)\nSection 179 (offences by associations)\nSection 180 (evidence by certificate of holding of elections)\nSection 180A (evidence by certificate of electoral registration)\nSection 181 (Director of Public Prosecutions)\nSection 183 (costs)\nSection 184 (service of notices)\nSection 185 (interpretation of Part III)\nSection 186 (computation of time for purposes of Part III)\nSection 200 (public notices, and declarations)\nSection 200A (remuneration for free postal services provided under Act)\nIn subsection (3), for the words from “charged” to the end substitute “paid by the Secretary of State”.\nSection 202 (general provisions as to interpretation)\nSection 205 (general application to Northern Ireland)",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 18(7) was amended by paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 29 was amended by the Representation of the People Act 1991 (c. 11) and the Transfer of Functions (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1728); amendments made by Schedule 21 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 are not yet in force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Subsections (1) and (2) of section 49 were repealed by Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”); subsection (3) was repealed by Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act; subsection (5) was substituted by Schedule 2 to the Local Government Elections (Changes to the Franchise and Qualification of Members) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1948) and amended by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act; subsection (6) was inserted by that Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 52(5) was substituted by paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 54 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 61 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1985 and subsection (6A) was inserted by section 2(5) of the Elections (Northern Ireland) Act 1985 (c. 2); other amendments made by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 63 was substituted by paragraph 19 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Subsections (3) and (4) of section 65 were substituted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Section 65A was inserted by Schedule 6 to the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Section 66(6) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "Section 66A was inserted by Schedule 6 to the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "Section 67(4) was amended by paragraph 20 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "Section 68(3) was amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "Section 69 was amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985 and Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "Subsection (3A) of section 70 was inserted by paragraph 23 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "Section 71A was inserted by section 130(2) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "Section 73 was amended by section 14(1) of the 1985 Act and Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f18",
      "text": "Section 74 was amended by section 14(2) of the 1985 Act and Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f19",
      "text": "Section 74A was inserted by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f20",
      "text": "So far as material, section 75 has been amended as follows: section 75(1)(i) was amended by Schedule 20 to the Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42) and Schedule 10 to the Broadcasting Act 1996 (c. 55); section 75(1)(ii) was amended, and section 75(1ZA) was inserted, by section 131 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000; and subsections (2), (4) and (5) were amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f21",
      "text": "Subsections (1) and (2)(aa) of section 76 were substituted, and subsection (1B) was inserted, by section 132 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000; subsection (2)(a) was amended by section 6 of the Representation of the People Act 1989 (c. 28) and the sums in that provision were substituted by S.I. 2001/535; words were omitted from subsection (2) by Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 and subsection (4) was substituted by that Schedule; and subsection (3) was repealed by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f22",
      "text": "Subsections (1) and (4) of section 78 were amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act; subsections (1) and (2) were amended by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000; subsection (6) was repealed, and subsection (7) was substituted, by that Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f23",
      "text": "Subsections (1) and (4) of section 79 were amended by paragraph 26 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985 and subsection (3) was repealed by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f24",
      "text": "Section 81 was amended, so far as material to this Order, by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f25",
      "text": "Section 82 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and subsection (4) was repealed by Schedule 22 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f26",
      "text": "Subsection (1A) of section 86 was inserted by paragraph 30(a) of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985 and subsection (2) amended by paragraph 30(b) of that Schedule; subsection (10) was substituted, and subsections (9) and (11) were repealed, by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f27",
      "text": "Section 87(3) was amended by paragraph 31 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f28",
      "text": "Section 87A was inserted by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f29",
      "text": "Section 88 was amended, so far as material, by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f30",
      "text": "Subsections (1) and (1A) of section 89 were substituted by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 and subsection (3) was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f31",
      "text": "Sections 90A to 90C were inserted by section 134(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f32",
      "text": "Section 91(1) was substituted by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act; subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 91 were amended, and subsection (5) was inserted, by Schedule 8 to the Postal Services Act 2000 (c. 26); and subsection (4) was substituted by Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f33",
      "text": "Section 92(1) was substituted by Schedule 20 to the Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f34",
      "text": "Section 93 was substituted by section 144 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f35",
      "text": "Section 94 was amended by paragraph 36 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985 but the amendments are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f36",
      "text": "Section 99(2) was substituted by Schedule 3 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f37",
      "text": "Section 100(2) was amended by Schedule 3 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f38",
      "text": "Section 106(4) was repealed by Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act; section 106(8) was repealed, and section 106(9) was substituted, by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f39",
      "text": "Section 110 was substituted by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 but the commencement of the new provision now rests on an order to be made under section 2(1) of the Election Publications Act 2001 (c. 5); the original section 110(3) which has returned into force was amended by Schedule 3 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f40",
      "text": "Section 118 was amended by paragraph 43 of Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act, section 135(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 and Schedule 18 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f41",
      "text": "Section 118A was inserted by section 135(2) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f42",
      "text": "Subsections (2) and (3) of section 119 were substituted by section 19(4) of the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f43",
      "text": "Section 121(5) was amended by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f44",
      "text": "Section 122(4) was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and section 122(8) was repealed by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f45",
      "text": "Section 124 was repealed in part by Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f46",
      "text": "Section 126(3) was repealed in part by Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act and amended by Schedule 4 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f47",
      "text": "Section 136 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f48",
      "text": "Section 137 was substituted by Schedule 17 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f49",
      "text": "Section 138(1) was amended by Schedule 17 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f50",
      "text": "Section 140 was amended by paragraph 49 of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f51",
      "text": "Subsections (3) and (4) of section 141 were repealed by Schedule 5 to the Act of 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f52",
      "text": "Section 156 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f53",
      "text": "Section 157(5) was repealed by Schedule 22 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f54",
      "text": "Section 159(2) was repealed by Schedule 17 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f55",
      "text": "Words were omitted from subsection (1) of section 160 and subsection (2) was repealed by Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act; subsection (3) was substituted by Schedule 4 to that Act; subsections (4) to (5A) were substituted by Schedule 17 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f56",
      "text": "Sections 161 to 163 were repealed in part by Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act and amended by Schedule 4 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f57",
      "text": "Section 167(1A) was inserted by paragraph 56 of Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and subsection (4) was omitted, and subsection (5) was substituted, by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f58",
      "text": "Subsection (1) of section 168 was substituted for subsections (1) to (4) by paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1985 and subsections (5) and (6) were repealed by Schedule 5 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f59",
      "text": "Section 169 was repealed in part by Schedule 5 to the Act of 1985 and amended by paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f60",
      "text": "Section 173 was substituted by section 136 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f61",
      "text": "Section 174(6) was repealed by Schedule 22 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f62",
      "text": "Section 175(1) was amended by Schedule 21 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 and Schedule 3 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f63",
      "text": "Section 176 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f64",
      "text": "Section 178 was substituted by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f65",
      "text": "Section 180A was inserted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f66",
      "text": "Subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 181 were amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act; subsection (6) was repealed in part by Schedule 5 to that Act; and subsection (8) was repealed by Schedule 2 to the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f67",
      "text": "Section 184(1) was amended by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f68",
      "text": "Section 185 was amended by Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f69",
      "text": "Section 200(1) was substituted by paragraph 68 of Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f70",
      "text": "Section 200A was inserted by Schedule 8 to the Postal Services Act 2000 (c. 26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f71",
      "text": "Section 202(1) was amended by section 4(5) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to, the Act of 1985 and repealed in part by Schedule 5 to that Act; the definitions of “citizen of the Union” and “relevant citizen of the Union” were inserted by regulation 4(2) of the Local Government Elections (Changes to the Franchise and Qualification of Members) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1948); and the definition of “registered political party” was inserted by Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) and amended by Schedule 21 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f72",
      "text": "Section 205(1) was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act."
    }
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