{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Writs Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to provide address to the Post Office",
  "text": "(1) Every returning officer for a constituency shall—\n(a) if requested by the Post Office so to do, or\n(b) on the revocation of any notice given under sub-paragraph (a) of rule 4(1) of the elections rules\nprovide to the Post Office an address at which the writ may be conveyed to him and, on any change of that address, he shall as soon as possible provide to the Post Office a new address for that purpose.\n(2) Every acting returning officer for a constituency in England and Wales to whom the writ is to be delivered by virtue of a notice given under sub-paragraph (a) of rule 4(1) of the elections rules shall—\n(a) on being informed that such a notice has been given, or\n(b) if requested by the Post Office so to do,\nprovide to the Post Office an address at which the writ may be conveyed to him and, on any change of that address, he shall as soon as possible provide to the Post Office a new address for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1149",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/605/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:03:15.522699+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."
}