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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/10",
  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
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  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) An Order in Council under this Schedule shall apply to the first general election of representatives to the Assembly held after the Order comes into force and (subject to any further Order in Council) to any subsequent European Parliamentary election, but shall not affect any earlier election.\n(2) The validity of an European Parliamentary election held in an European Parliamentary constituency consisting of an area determined by an Order in Council made under this Schedule, being an Order which applies to that election, shall not be affected by any alteration made in any parliamentary constituency since the making of that Order.",
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  "status": null,
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Words substituted retrospectively by virtue of European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58, SIF 29:5), s. 3(1)(b)(3)"
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      "text": "References to the European Parliament substituted retrospectively for references to the Assembly by virtue of European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58, SIF 29:5), s. 3(1)(a)(3)"
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