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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Questioning of mayoral election",
  "text": "For the purposes of sections 9HE(6) and 44(4) of the 2000 Act, Part 3 (legal proceedings) of the 1983 Act shall have effect in relation to the questioning of an election for the return of an elected mayor as it has effect in relation to the questioning of an election under the local government Act .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (6.4.2014) by The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/370), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 27.3.2007, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “local government Act” is to be found in section 203(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1024/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:19.544645+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."
}