{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-parishes-and-communities-england-and-wales-rules-2006/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-parishes-and-communities-england-and-wales-rules-2006/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3305",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) (England and Wales) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-parishes-and-communities-england-and-wales-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Modification of the 1983 Act",
  "text": "In the application of those provisions of the 1983 Act referred to in section 187(1) of that Act to an election of parish ... councillors or an election of the chairman of a parish ... council the following modifications shall have effect—\n(a) for any reference to the proper officer of the authority there shall be substituted a reference to the returning officer, and\n(b) in section 136(2)(b) of that Act for the words “£2,500” there shall be substituted “£1,500”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 6 omitted (10.3.2022) by virtue of The Local Elections (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/263), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 6 (with reg. 12(d))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 187(1) was amended by paragraph 64 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50) and by paragraph 124 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Section 136(2) was amended by paragraph 48 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50) and by paragraph 19(4) of Schedule 18 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3305/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:09.369839+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."
}