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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1989/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/28",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1989",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Annual reminders to overseas electors.",
  "text": "In Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (provisions that may be contained in regulations about registration), after paragraph 2 there is inserted—\n“\n2A Provisions requiring registration officers to remind persons registered in pursuance of overseas electors’ declarations in a register of parliamentary electors of the need to make fresh declarations in order to be so registered in the subsequent register.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/28/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:39.757869+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."
}