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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2014/8",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the formula is—\nS 1 + Mwhere—\nS the number of members of the council who stood in the name of the party when elected;\nM the number of positions of responsibility (if any) which are held by such members of the council (treating the holding of a position of responsibility for each term as a separate position of responsibility).\n(2) If at the first annual meeting after a local general election the council by resolution passed by a qualified majority so decides, the formula in sub-paragraph (1) has effect as if M were doubled.\n(3) Where the figures given by the formula for two or more parties are equal, each of those figures shall be recalculated with S being equal to the number of first preference votes cast for the party at the last local general election.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in operation at 2.6.2014 for specified purposes by S.R. 2014/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/8/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:21.412545+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."
}