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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-officers-political-restrictions-regulations-1990/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/851",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-officers-political-restrictions-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The appointee shall not announce or cause, authorise or permit anyone else to announce that he is, or intends to be, a candidate for election as a member of—\n(a) the House of Commons;\n(aa) the Scottish Parliament;\n(ab) the Welsh Assembly; the National Assembly for Wales;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or\n(c) a local authority within the meaning of section 21(1) or (2) of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1(aa) inserted (S.) (1.1.1999) by The Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Amendment Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/3116), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 1(3)) and (E.) (1.4.1999) by The Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/715), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1(ab) inserted (E.) (1.4.1999) by The Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/715), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1(ab) inserted (W.) (7.7.1999) by The Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1665), regs. 1(1), 2(2) (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 5(3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1 in force at 1.5.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/851/schedule/paragraph/1",
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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."
}