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  "legislation_title": "Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000",
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  "text": "In this Part of this Schedule—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998;\n“the appointed day” means the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of this Act;\n“the compliance period” means the period of six weeks beginning with the initial date;\n“emblem”, in relation to a party, means an emblem to be used by the party on ballot papers;\n“the initial date” means the date falling 14 days after the day on which this Act is passed;\n“the new registers” means the Great Britain register and the Northern Ireland register.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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