{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-amendment-england-rules-2022/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-amendment-england-rules-2022/rule-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1029",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Rules 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-amendment-england-rules-2022",
  "path": "rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, savings, extent and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Rules 2022.\n(2) These Rules come into force on 9th November 2022 but have no effect in relation to any election in respect of which the date of the poll specified in the notice of election is on or before 3rd May 2023.\n(3) These rules extend to England and Wales.\n(4) In these Rules “the 2006 Rules” means the Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) Rules 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/3304, amended by S.I. 2018/1308; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. By virtue of S.I. 2021/1459 (W. 374) and S.I. 2022/263 (W. 79), S.I. 2006/3304 no longer applies to the election of councillors of principal areas in Wales."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1029/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:55:14.287145+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."
}