{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Writs Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Parliamentary writs list",
  "text": "The Post Office shall prepare and keep up to date a list (in this Order referred to as the “parliamentary writs list”) setting out—\n(a) by the title of his office, each returning officer in respect of whom a notice under sub-paragraph (a) of rule 4(1) of the elections rules is not in force, together with, as the address of the office of that officer, the address provided under Article 5(1) above, and\n(b) by the title of his office, each acting returning officer in respect of whom a notice under sub-paragraph (a) of rule 4(1) of the elections rules is in force, together with, as the address of the office of the officer, the address provided under Article 5(2) above.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}