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Paragraph 17

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

At the end of section 73 (attendance of Director of Public Prosecutions at trial of election petition)f1 there shall be added the words:

“At the trial of a petition relating to a local election, this section shall have effect as if for the word ‘shall’ there were substituted ‘may and, if the election court so requests him, shall’.”.

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Section 73 was amended by Article 9(1) of the Prosecution of Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/538 (N.I. 1)).