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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "District electoral areas",
  "text": "At a local election there shall be a separate election for each district electoral area and each such area shall return such number of councillors as is provided by the Order in Council under section 38(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 constituting the area in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/454/article/5",
    "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."
}