{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-policy-development-grants-scheme-order-2025/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-policy-development-grants-scheme-order-2025/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/159",
  "legislation_title": "The Elections (Policy Development Grants Scheme) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-policy-development-grants-scheme-order-2025",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Elections (Policy Development Grants Scheme) Order 2025 and comes into force on 6th March 2025.\n(2) This Order extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.\n(3) This Order does not affect the allocation of policy development grants by the Electoral Commission in accordance with the Elections (Policy Development Grants Scheme) Order 2006 in relation to the year ending with 31st March 2025.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 12(1)(a) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 for the meaning of “policy development grant”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/602."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/159/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:29.549581+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."
}