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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-30",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "At the end of section 118 (time limit for prosecutions) there shall be added the following subsection:\n“(3) In respect of the prosecution of an electoral misdemeanour committed or alleged to have been committed at a local election, this section shall have effect subject to the following amendments:\n(a) in subsection (1) the words, ‘whether before an election court or otherwise,’ shall be omitted, and\n(b) for subsection (2) there shall be substituted:\n‘(2) For the purposes of this section, the making of a complaint shall be deemed to be the commencement of a proceeding.’.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 118(1) was repealed in part by Part V of the Schedule to the Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (c. 12)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/168/schedule/1/paragraph/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:06.477704+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."
}