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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2401",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/37",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Presiding in Legislative Council.",
  "text": "(1) The Speaker or, in his absence, the Deputy Speaker or, if they are both absent, a member of the Legislative Council (not being a member of the Executive Council) elected by the Legislative Council for that sitting shall preside at each sitting of the Legislative Council.\n(2) References in this section to circumstances in which the Speaker or Deputy Speaker is absent include references to circumstances in which the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker is vacant.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2401/schedule/2/paragraph/37",
    "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."
}