{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-act-2000/schedule-10/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/41",
  "legislation_title": "Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n(a) “an ordinary general election to the Scottish Parliament” means an election held under section 2 of the Scotland Act 1998;\n(b) “an extraordinary general election to the Scottish Parliament” means an election held under section 3 of the Scotland Act 1998;\n(c) “an ordinary general election to Senedd Cymru” means an election under section 3 of the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n(ca) “an extraordinary general election to Senedd Cymru” means an election under section 5 of the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n(d) “an ordinary general election to the Northern Ireland Assembly” means an election held under section 31 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998; and\n(e) “an extraordinary general election to the Northern Ireland Assembly” means an election held under section 32 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.\n(2) For the purposes of this Schedule a parliamentary general election is pending during the period—\n(a) beginning with the date on which Parliament is dissolved ... for a parliamentary general election, and\n(b) ending with the date of the poll for that election.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 1(1)(c)(ca) substituted for Sch. 10 para. 1(c) by The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388), art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 100(2), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the ordinary election under s. 3 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) held on 3.5.2007, see art. 1(2) of the amending S.I."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 1(1)(c) substituted (1.1.2025) by Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 5), s. 72(4), Sch. 1 para. 6(11)(a); S.I. 2024/1337, art. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 1(1)(ca) substituted (1.1.2025) by Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 5), s. 72(4), Sch. 1 para. 6(11)(a); S.I. 2024/1337, art. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 1(2)(a) substituted (15.9.2011) by Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (c. 14), s. 7(2), Sch. para. 22(2) (with s. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 1(2)(a) omitted (24.3.2022) by virtue of Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 (c. 11), s. 6(3), Sch. para. 17(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 1(3) repealed (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. 1 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1998 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 wholly in force at 16.2.2001; Sch. 10 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 163(2); Sch. 10 in force at 16.2.2001 by S.I. 2001/222, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 1 Pt. II)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/41/schedule/10/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:25.524976+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."
}