{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-5.json",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  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exemption from jury service.",
  "text": "(1) In Part III of Schedule 1 to the Juries Act 1974 (excusal of certain persons from jury service in England and Wales) . . ., before the heading “The Forces” there shall be inserted the following:\n“ European Assembly\nRepresentatives to the Assembly of the European Communities.”.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(1) repealed (31.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1141 (N.I. 6), art. 32(3), Sch. 5; S.R. 1996/267, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5(2) repealed by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55, SIF 72:2), s. 28(2), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 5(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/10/section/5",
    "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."
}