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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-elections-order-2001/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2599",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-elections-order-2001",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Franchise",
  "text": "A person is entitled to vote at an Assembly election in a constituency if on the day of the poll he would be entitled to vote as an elector at a local election in a district electoral area wholly or partly comprised in that constituency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "art. 4 renumbered as art. 4(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/256",
      "affecting_title": "The Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/256",
      "affecting_title": "The Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2009"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2599/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:39:46.976007+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."
}