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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/739",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Revocations) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Representation of the People Act 1985",
  "text": "In sections 6(2A)(d) (absent vote at elections for an indefinite period) and 9(5)(d) (voting as proxy) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 for the word “division”, substitute in both cases the word “ward”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50; section 6(2A)(d) was inserted by the Representation of the People Act 1990 (c. 32), section 1(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/739/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:10.731850+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."
}