{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2005/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-amendment-order-2005/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to the 1985 Order",
  "text": "(1) Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1985 Order shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in paragraph l(2)(c) after “spouse,” insert “civil partner”;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in paragraph 7(1)(a) after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”;\n(d) in paragraph 7(2) after “wife,” insert “civil partner”;\n(e) in paragraph 7(3)(b) after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”;\n(f) in paragraph 8(2) after “wife,” insert “civil partner”; and\n(g) in paragraph 14(2)(b) after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”.\n(2) In the Appendix to Schedule 2 to the 1985 Order, in paragraph 4 of the Form of proxy paper after “wife,” insert “civil partner,”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 4(1)(b) revoked (31.1.2024) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 6 para. 34(c); S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(e)(ix)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1985 Order was substituted by article 5(5) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1969/article/4",
    "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."
}