{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-and-recall-petition-welsh-forms-amendment-no-2-order-2024/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1273",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Elections and Recall Petition (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-and-recall-petition-welsh-forms-amendment-no-2-order-2024",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent and saving",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections and Recall Petition (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 and comes into force on 4th December 2024.\n(2) This Order extends to England and Wales.\n(3) This Order does not apply in relation to—\n(a) a parliamentary election in respect of which the day of poll, as specified in the notice of the election published in accordance with rule 5 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983, is before 1st May 2025;\n(b) a recall petition in respect of which the beginning date of the signing period, as specified in the public notice of petition given under regulation 14 of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016, is before 1st May 2025.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2. Rule 5 was amended by paragraph 74 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 1985, by paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2), and by section 19(3) of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/295, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1273/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:17.067217+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."
}