{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-rules-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-rules-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-and-community-meetings-polls-rules-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE\nMade 5th January 1987\nLaid before Parliament 16th January 1987\nComing into force 16th February 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 and section 36 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, 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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 2; the power in section 36 is referred to in section 187(1) of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}