{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Limit on candidates' election expenses",
  "text": "In section 42(1) of the Act of 1962 (limit on candidates' election expenses at an election), for the words from “current register” to the end there shall be substituted the words \"current register, and for a candidate at a local election is £135 together with an additional 2.8p for every entry in the register of electors to be used at the election (as first published)\".",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 42(1) was amended (so far as material) by Article 13(2)(c) of the Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/454/article/9",
    "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."
}