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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-northern-ireland-order-2024/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/747",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-northern-ireland-order-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Representation Of The People, Northern Ireland\nMade 6th June 2024\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(2)\nThe Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 29(3)(b) and (4C) of the Representation of the People Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2; subsections (3) to (4C) were substituted for subsections (3) to (4) by section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1991 (c. 11). Subsection (3) was substituted by section 68 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) and amended by section 18 of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6). Subsection (4C) was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2). Subsections (3) to (11) were substituted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 21 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41), as amended by paragraph 107 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006, but those amendments are not yet in force. Consent of the Treasury is required by section 29(9) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, which was inserted by section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1991, substituted by S.I. 1991/1728 and amended by section 68 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006. Other amendments to section 29 are not relevant."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/747/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:28:22.611171+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."
}