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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-amendment-england-rules-2022/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-amendment-england-rules-2022/rule-2.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/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the 2006 Rules",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 to the 2006 Rules (rules for conduct of an election of councillors of a principal area where poll is not taken together with poll at another election) is amended as follows.\n(2) In rule 6 (subscription of nomination paper)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), omit from “, and by” to the end;\n(b) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) for “, seconding or assenting to” substitute “or seconding”;\n(ii) omit “or signatures (up to the required number)”.\n(3) In Part 7 (appendix of forms), for the Form of Nomination Paper substitute the form in Schedule 1 to these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The form of nomination paper in Part 7 of Schedule 2 was substituted by rule 2(9) of S.I. 2018/1308."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1029/rule/2",
    "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."
}