{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/section-73",
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  "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/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Attendance of Director of Public Prosecutions at trial of election petition.",
  "text": "[ The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland] shall attend the trial of every election petition or cause it to be attended on his behalf. At the trial of a petition relating to a local election, this section shal have effect as if for the word shall there were substituted may and, if the election court so requests him, shall.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "continue to am. 2002 c. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1972 NI 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SI 1987/168"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1962/14/section/73",
    "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."
}