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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/168",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "text": "(1) Article 6(6) (manner of voting) of the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 shall be omitted.\n(2) For Article 6(7) of that Order there shall be substituted the following paragraph:\n“(7) If a local elector is not entitled as an elector to an absent vote at the election but cannot reasonably be expected to go in person to the polling station allotted to him under the local elections rules by reason of the particular circumstances of his employment either as a constable or by the returning officer, on the date of the poll for a purpose connected with the election, he may vote in person at any polling station in the district electoral area.”.\n(3) At the end of Article 6 of that Order there shall be added the following paragraphs:—\n“(9) For the purposes of the provisions of this Order and the Act of 1962, a person entitled to vote as an elector at a local election is entitled as an elector to vote by post or entitled to vote by proxy at the election if he is shown in the absent voters list for the election as so entitled; and references in those provisions to entitlement as an elector to an absent vote at a local election are references to entitlement as an elector to vote by post or entitlement to vote by proxy at the election.\n(10) Parts I and III of Schedule 2 shall have effect as if contained in Part VII of the Act of 1962.”.\n(4) Article 14 (voting offences) of that Order shall be omitted.\n(5) For Part I (voting by post and by proxy) of Schedule 2 to that Order there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Schedule 2.\n(6) Part II (forms) of Schedule 2 to that Order shall be omitted.\n(7) Part III (issue and receipt of postal ballot papers) of Schedule 2 to that Order shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/454."
    }
  ],
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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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