{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1969/26",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1969",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Voting age.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the principal Act, a person shall be of voting age if he is of the age of eighteen or over;... and accordingly the principal Act shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this section.\nSubs.(2) rep. by 1989 c.3\nSubs.(3) substitutes s.130(4) of 1962 c.14 (NI)\nSubs.(4) rep. by 1989 c.3\nSubs.(5) inserts sub‐para.(2A) in sch.7 to 1962 c.14 (NI)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 c.3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/26/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:51.100281+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."
}