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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/election-petition-amendment-rules-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Election Petition (Amendment) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/election-petition-amendment-rules-2003",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE\nSUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 24th March 2003\nLaid before Parliament 2nd April 2003\nComing into force 1st May 2003\nThe Civil Procedure Rule Committee, being the authority having for the time being power to make rules of court for the Supreme Court, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 136, 182 and 185 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, make the following Rules—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "in accordance with section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 2. Section 136 was amended by the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), section 24 and Schedule 4, paragraph 48."
    }
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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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