{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2001/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2001/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Rule 34 of the elections rules (voting procedure) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (6)(f) (specified documents to include British seaman’s card) for the words from “under” to the end substitute “or having effect as if made under section 79 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995”.\n(3) In paragraph (6)(g) (specified documents to include plastic card with national insurance number embossed on it) after the words “the Department of Social Security” insert “or the Department for Social Development”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 in force at 28.2.2001, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (6)(f) was inserted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1987/168."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (6)(g) was inserted by S.I. 1991/1715."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/417/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:03:59.498194+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."
}