{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hackney-electoral-changes-order-2013/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2795",
  "legislation_title": "The Hackney (Electoral Changes) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hackney-electoral-changes-order-2013",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and Commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Hackney (Electoral Changes) Order 2013.\n(2) This Order comes into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to the elections of councillors for wards, on the day after that on which it is made;\n(b) for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2014.\n(3) In this article, “ordinary day of election of councillors” has the meaning given by section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c.2; section 37 has been amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50), paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c.29) and section 60(1) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c.28)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2795/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:35:59.846168+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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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}