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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-service-voters-registration-period-northern-ireland-order-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110814575",
  "legislation_title": "The Service Voters’ Registration Period (Northern Ireland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-service-voters-registration-period-northern-ireland-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Order laid before Parliament under section 15(11)(b) of the Representation of the People Act 1983(c.2), for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nRepresentation Of The People\nMade 2008\nComing into force 1st July 2008\nIn accordance with section 15(11)(a) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”), the Electoral Commission has been consulted prior to making this order.\nA draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament under section 15(11)(b) and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.\nAccordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 15(9) of the 1983 Act makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c.2. Section 15 was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2) and by paragraph 4(b) of Schedule 2 to S.I.1995/1948. Subsections (9) to (12) of section 15 were inserted by section 13(1) of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22)."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110814575/introduction",
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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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