{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Writs Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-writs-order-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order replaces the Parliamentary Writs Order 1944, which would otherwise have effect as if made under the parliamentary elections rules in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (“the elections rules”). Under this Order (which does not extend to Northern Ireland) the manner in which writs for parliamentary elections are to be conveyed in Great Britain will continue to be by post (Article 9).\nThe following changes of substance are made. A returning officer who has given the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery notice under rule 4(1) of the elections rules that writs of election are to be conveyed to the acting returning officer is required by Article 4 to give a copy of that notice to the acting returning officer. The latter officer is required by Article 5(2) to give notice of an address at which the writ is to be delivered to him, which address is recorded under Article 6. Article 11(1) provides that delivery of the writ to a person found in and for the time being in charge of the place recorded in the parliamentary writs list as being the office of the returning officer or, as the case may be, acting returning officer shall be as good as delivery to that officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/605/note",
    "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."
}