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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2395",
  "legislation_title": "The Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2009",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed Date",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 4th September 2009 —\n(a) section 23 (election falling within canvass period);\n(b) section 24 (candidate at parliamentary election may withhold home address from publication);\n(c) section 39 (amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in sub-paragraphs (d) and (e);\n(d) paragraphs 1 to 5 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 (minor and consequential amendments);\n(e) the entries in Schedule 7 (repeals) relating to section 10A(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1983 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "New sections 10 and 10A of the 1983 Act were substituted for section 10 by paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2395/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
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