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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elected-authorities-northern-ireland-act-1989/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/3",
  "legislation_title": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elected-authorities-northern-ireland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Declaration against terrorism: local elections.",
  "text": "(1) A person is not validly nominated as a candidate at a local election unless his consent to nomination includes a declaration in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.\n(2) In Schedule 5 to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, in the Appendix of Forms, in the form headed “Candidate’s consent to nomination”, after the paragraph beginning “I further declare” there is inserted the paragraph set out in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1962 c. 14 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/3/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:18.324032+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."
}