{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/454",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Consequential amendments to Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "text": "(1) The following amendments in consequence of the provisions of this Order shall be made to the Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.\n(2) Article 3(2) and Schedule 1 (timetable for local elections and computation of time) shall cease to have effect.\n(3) Article 8(2) (description of candidate in nomination paper and on ballot paper) shall cease to have effect.\n(4) Article 10 (deposits by candidates at local elections) shall cease to have effect.\n(5) In Article 11 (period for delivery of nomination papers) the words “and local” shall be omitted.\n(6) In Article 14 (hours of polling) the words “or local” and the words from “and in paragraph (3)” to the end shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1264 (N.I. 13)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/454/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:15:19.409580+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."
}