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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006-commencement-no7-order-2008/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006-commencement-no7-order-2008/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1316",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Commencement No.7) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006-commencement-no7-order-2008",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions of the Electoral Administration Act 2006",
  "text": "The provisions referred to in article 2(3) are—\n(a) section 38(4) and (5)(Tendered votes);\n(b) section 41(7)(Control of documents after parliamentary election);\n(c) section 47 (Miscellaneous amendments of the 1983 Act) for the purposes of the provisions specified in paragraph (f)(iii);\n(d) section 73(3) (Abolition of common law incapacity: mental state);\n(e) section 74 (Miscellaneous amendments and repeals) for the purposes of the provisions specified in paragraphs (f)(iv) and (g);\n(f) in Schedule 1—\n(i) paragraph 47;\n(ii) paragraph 48;\n(iii) paragraphs 55 to 62, 63 to 64, 65 to 68, 90 and 95;\n(iv) paragraphs 110, 134 and 135;\n(g) in Schedule 2, the entries relating to—\n(i) the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962;\n(ii) Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n(iii) the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989;\n(iv) the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c.50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1989 c.3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2002 c.13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1316/article/5",
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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."
}