{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/10",
  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Electoral regions and number of MEPs.",
  "text": "(1) The United Kingdom shall be divided into electoral regions.\n(2) England shall be divided into nine electoral regions.\n(3) Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland shall each constitute a single electoral region.\n(4) The number of MEPs elected in the United Kingdom shall be 87, of whom—\n(a) 71 shall be elected for electoral regions in England,\n(b) 8 shall be elected for Scotland,\n(c) 5 shall be elected for Wales, and\n(d) 3 shall be elected for Northern Ireland.\n(5) Schedule 2 (which sets out the electoral regions in England and makes provision for the number of MEPs to be elected for each region) shall have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-3D substituted for ss. 1-3 (16.3.1999 for specified purposes only and 1.5.1999 otherwise) by 1999 c. 1, s. 1; S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/10/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:09.782128+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."
}