{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-44",
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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/44",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 7 (provisions as to security for costs) of Schedule 8 (election courts):\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2)(b) for the words “five hundred pounds” there shall be substituted “£2,500”;\n(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (3) there shall be added:\n“In respect of a petition relating to a local election the following provisions shall have effect in substitution for the foregoing provisions of this sub-paragraph:\n‘Within the prescribed time after giving the security the petitioner shall serve on the respondent in the prescribed manner—\n(a) a notice of the presentation of the petition and of the amount and nature of the security, and\n(b) a copy of the petition.’.”;\n(c) at the end of sub-paragraph (4) there shall be added:\n“In respect of a petition relating to a local election this sub-paragraph shall have effect as if the words ‘, not exceeding five days after service of the notice,’ were omitted.”;\n(d) sub-paragraph (5) shall be omitted; and\n(e) at the end of sub-paragraph (7) there shall be added:\n“In respect of a petition relating to a local election this sub-paragraph shall have effect as if the words “not exceeding five days” were omitted.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/168/schedule/1/paragraph/44",
    "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."
}