{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-amendment-rules-1998/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-amendment-rules-1998/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/578",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Amendment) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-amendment-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In rules 5 (application of rules in Schedule 2) and 6 (application of modifications in Schedule 3) of the 1986 Rules, for the words from “section 36(3)” to “Act 1983” there shall be substituted “section 36(3), (3AB) or (3AC) of the Representation of the People Act 1983”.\n(2) For the heading of rule 6 of the 1986 Rules there shall be substituted “Combination under section 36(3), (3AB) or (3AC) of the Act of 1983”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 36(3) was substituted by section 17 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50) and amended by Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19); section 36(3AB) was inserted by Schedule 16 to the 1994 Act and section 36(3AC) was inserted by Schedule 3 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/578/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
}