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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-postponement-of-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2009/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-postponement-of-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2009/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111471319",
  "legislation_title": "The Postponement of Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-postponement-of-local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Postponement of Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2009 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.\n(2) In this Order “the 1962 Act” means the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies to this paragraph and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 14 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111471319/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:58:17.955657+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."
}