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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-expenses-limits-for-permitted-participants-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110494350",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums (Expenses Limits for Permitted Participants) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-assembly-and-local-government-referendums-expenses-limits-for-permitted-participants-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the PPER Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 as modified by the Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004;\n“local government referendums” means referendums held pursuant to an order made under section 2(2) of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003;\n“North West region”, “North East region” and “Yorkshire and the Humber region” have the same meaning as in Schedule 1 to the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998;\n“Regional Assembly referendum” means a referendum held pursuant to an order made under section 1(1) of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003;\n“relevant percentage” has the meaning given by article 6;\nand other expressions have the same meaning in this Order as in the PPER Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/****."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2003 c. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1998 c. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See in particular, the definitions of “permitted participants” in section 105(1) and (1A), and of “referendum expenses” in section 111(2) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) as applied and modified by the Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004 (S.I. 20004/****), Schedule 3."
    }
  ],
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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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