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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/948",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 1999",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE\nMade 23rd March 1999\nComing into force 1st May 1999\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 4(1)(a)(ii) and (b)(ii) of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 10; the title of this Act has been amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) and paragraph 4 was substituted by Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (c. 1)."
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  "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."
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