{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/section-62.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/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Plural candidatures prohibited.",
  "text": "(1) A person may not be nominated as a candidate at any parliamentary or local election where the nomination would result in that person's being a candidate at the same time—\n(a) in more than one constituency or, as the case may be, more than one… district electoral area in the same local government electoral area;\nPara.(b) rep. by 1972 NI 13\nand any nomination contravening this sub-section shall be void.\n(2) Sub-section (1) shall not be construed as preventing a duly qualified person from being nominated as a candidate at the elections of two or more local authorities notwithstanding that those elections are held on the same day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1972 NI 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SI 1990/595"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1962/14/section/62",
    "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."
}