{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2005/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2005/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1969",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to the 1962 Act",
  "text": "The local elections rules in Schedule 5 to the 1962 Act shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in rule 32(2) (questions to be put to voters) after “wife,” (twice) insert “civil partner,”; and\n(b) in rule 36(3)(b) (voting by persons with disabilities) after “wife,” insert “civil partner,”;.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 5 was substituted by article 4 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1985 Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 36 was substituted by article 18 of the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/417)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1969/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:56:01.593855+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."
}