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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-8.json",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  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In this Act—\n(a) any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article so numbered of the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the Assembly by direct universal suffrage annexed to the decision of the Council of the European Communities dated the 20th September 1976, and any reference to a numbered subdivision of a numbered Article shall be construed accordingly;\n(b) “enactment” includes an enactment contained in an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or an Order in Council made under the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972, or in a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(3) Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended, and includes a reference to it as applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 8(1) repealed (1.5.1999) by 1999 c. 1, s. 3(3), Sch. 4; S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1) (with art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/10/section/8",
    "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."
}