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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-parliamentary-constituencies-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110813172",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-parliamentary-constituencies-northern-ireland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The effect of section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 is that the coming into force of this Order shall not affect any parliamentary election until a proclamation is issued by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament and shall not affect the constitution of the House of Commons until the dissolution of the Parliament now in being."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}