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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-act-1986/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/56",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-act-1986",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Parliamentary constituencies.",
  "text": "(1) There shall for the purpose of parliamentary elections be the county and borough constituencies (or in Scotland the county and burgh constituencies), each returning a single member, which are described in Orders in Council made under this Act.\n(2) In this Act and, except where the context otherwise requires, in any Act passed after the Representation of the People Act 1948, “constituency” means an area having separate representation in the House of Commons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1948 c. 65."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/56/section/1",
    "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."
}