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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-45",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/168",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 12 (witnesses) of Schedule 8:\n(a) at the beginning of sub-paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the words “Except in respect of the trial of a local election petition,”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (7)(a) after the words “to answer” there shall be inserted the words “, other than a witness at a trial of a local election petition,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2001/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/168/schedule/1/paragraph/45",
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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."
}