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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-changes-to-years-of-ordinary-elections-england-order-2025/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/137",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-changes-to-years-of-ordinary-elections-england-order-2025",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025 and comes into force on 4th March 2025.\n(2) This Order extends to England and Wales.\n(3) In this Order—\n“the ordinary day of election of councillors” has the same meaning as in section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983;\n“specified local authority” means a local authority specified in article 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 4.3.2025, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2. Section 37 was amended by section 18 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), section 6(16) of the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4) and by S.I. 2018/1310."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/137/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:42.242613+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."
}