{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2401",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Qualifications for elected membership.",
  "text": "Subject to section 28 of this Constitution, any person who—\n(a) is a Commonwealth citizen of the age of twenty-one years or upwards; and\n(b) has resided in Montserrat for a period of twelve months immediately preceding the date of his nomination for election, or is domiciled in Montserrat and is resident therein at the date aforesaid,\nshall be qualified to be elected as an elected member of the Legislative Council, and no other person shall be qualified to be so elected or, having been so elected, shall sit or vote in the Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended (Montserrat constitution)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1339",
      "affecting_title": "The Montserrat Constitution (Amendment) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2401/schedule/2/paragraph/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:48.620255+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."
}