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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-act-1986/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/56",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State ... may, at the request of any Commission, appoint one or more assistant Commissioners to assist the Commission in the discharge of their functions.\n(2) Any such assistant Commissioner shall be appointed either for a certain term or for the purposes of a particular matter, and on such conditions as to remuneration and otherwise as may be determined before his appointment by the Secretary of State ... with the approval of the Treasury.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 5(5) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1) substituted (16.2.2011) by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1), ss. 10(10)(a), 19(1) (with s. 13(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 6(2) substituted (16.2.2011) by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1), ss. 10(10)(b), 19(1) (with s. 13(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(2) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 5(5) (with art. 12)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/56/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:00.628020+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."
}