{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1989/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1989/section-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Increase of limits on expenses of candidates at parliamentary by-elections.",
  "text": "(1) In section 76(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (limitation of election expenses)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “parliamentary election” there is substituted “ parliamentary general election, being an election ”, and\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(b)(2) repealed (16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 41, s. 158(2), Sch. 22 (with s. 156(6)); S.I. 2001/222, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I Annex"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/28/section/6",
    "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."
}