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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010/article-48",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2474",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "The Legislative Assembly",
  "text": "(1) The Legislative Assembly shall consist of nine elected members and two ex officio members, namely the Attorney-General and the Financial Secretary.\n(2) The Legislature may by law increase the number of elected members of the Legislative Assembly; but no such law shall come into force—\n(a) if the additional member or members are not to be elected from an existing electoral district or districts, unless a Bill providing for the electoral districts and their boundaries to take account of the additional member or members in accordance with section 79 has been passed; and\n(b) until the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly next following the enactment of such law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2474/article/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:47.374452+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."
}