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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1972",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Election expenses",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to section 27 of, and paragraphs 111, 112, and 116 to 119 of Schedule 1 to, the Act.\n(2) The provisions to which this paragraph applies do not have effect in relation to any of the elections mentioned in sub-paragraph (3), where the day of the poll is on or before 3rd May 2007 (or, in the case of an uncontested election, would have been had the election been contested).\n(3) The elections mentioned in this sub-paragraph are—\n(a) a parliamentary by-election;\n(b) an election under section 89 of the Local Government Act 1972 to fill a casual vacancy;\n(c) an election under section 10 or 16 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70; section 89 was amended by the 1983 Act (c. 2), Schedule 8, paragraph 13; and the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), section 19(6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1999 c. 29."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1972/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
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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."
}