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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-amendment-regulations-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1243",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE\nMade 22nd May 1991\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(3)\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by resolutionof each House of Parliament;\nNow, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978, I hereby make the following Regulations:",
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      "text": "1978 c. 10; the citation of this Act has been amended inaccordance with section 3(1) (b) and (2) (b) of the European Communities(Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the SingleEuropean Act (Cmnd. 9758) on 1st July 1987."
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