{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-2.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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In this Order “the Act of 1962” means the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962.\n(3) In this Order expressions have the same meaning as in the Act of 1962.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1962 c. 14 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/454/article/2",
    "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."
}