{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/section-11G",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/section-11G.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1962/14",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962",
  "path": "section/11G",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11G",
  "heading": "Party or parties no longer registered",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if—\n(a) a casual vacancy arises in the seat of a member of a district council,\n(b) the Chief Electoral Officer determines the previous member stood in the name of a registered party or two or more registered parties when elected, and\n(c) on the day on which the Chief Electoral Officer receives the notice of the casual vacancy, the party or (as the case may be) at least one of the parties is no longer a registered party.\n(2) An election must be held to fill the vacancy.\n(3) This section is subject to section 11K (unfilled vacancies in a local election year).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 11A-11H, 11J, 11K inserted (1.4.2010) by Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1178), arts. 1(2), 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1962/14/section/11G",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:59.497504+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."
}