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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-yorkshire-district-of-york-structural-and-boundary-changes-order-1995/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/610",
  "legislation_title": "The North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-yorkshire-district-of-york-structural-and-boundary-changes-order-1995",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "First elections in York",
  "text": "(1) At the ordinary election of councillors of the York Council in 1995, the returning officer shall be the returning officer appointed under section 35 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”) by the council of the existing city of York.\n(2) Section 36(4) of the 1983 Act (payment of election expenses) shall not apply to that election.\n(3) All expenditure properly incurred by the returning officer in relation to the holding of that election shall be paid in the first instance by the council of the existing city of York and shall be defrayed by that council and the councils of the borough of Harrogate and the districts of Ryedale and Selby in such proportions as may be agreed between them or, failing such agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.\n(4) In relation to that election “the appropriate officer”, in Parts II and III of the 1983 Act does not have the meaning given by section 67(7) of that Act but means the returning officer for that election.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/610/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:12.889629+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."
}