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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/10",
  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a Boundary Commission have provisionally determined to make recommendations with respect to any European Parliamentary constituency, they shall publish a notice under this paragraph in such manner as they think best calculated to bring it to the attention of those concerned.\n(2) A notice under this paragraph relating to an European Parliamentary constituency shall state—\n(a) the effect of the proposed recommendations with respect to that constituency and (except where the proposed recommendations do not involve any alteration in that European Parliamentary constituency) that copies of the recommendations are open to inspection at one or more specified places within each parliamentary constituency included in that European Parliamentary constituency; and\n(b) that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Commission within one month after the first publication of the notice,\nand the Commission shall take into consideration any representations duly made in accordance with any such notice.\n(3) Where a Boundary Commission revise any proposed recommendations after publishing a notice of them under this paragraph the Commission shall publish a further notice under this paragraph in relation to the revised recommendations, as if no earlier notice had been published.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted retrospectively by virtue of European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58, SIF 29:5), s. 3(1)(b)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(3) inserted by Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56, SIF 42), s. 7, Sch. 3 para. 5(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."
}