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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-amendment-rules-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/262",
  "legislation_title": "The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) (Amendment) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-amendment-rules-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made to remove ambiguities from S.I. 1987/1 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE\nMade 25th February 1987\nLaid before Parliament 4th March 1987\nComing into force 11th March 1987\nIn exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 18(5) of Part III of, and paragraph 34(5) of Part V of, Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972, I hereby make the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70; those paragraphs were amended by paragraph 14 of Schedule 8 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2)."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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