{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/schedule-7/part-III",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/7/part/III",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Repeals extending to Northern Ireland only",
  "text": "Chapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n1985 c. 50.\nRepresentation of the People Act 1985.\nIn section 5—\n(a) in each of subsections (1) and (6), the words “or local government” (wherever occurring), and\n(b) in subsection (5), the words “or, as the case may be, electoral area”.\nIn section 6—\n(a) in subsection (1), the words “, at local government elections or at both”,\n(b) in subsection (2), the words “or local government” and paragraph (aa), and\n(c) subsections (2A) and (3)(a).\nIn section 7—\n(a) in each of subsections (1) and (4), the words “or local government”, and\n(b) in subsection (1)(b), the words “or, as the case may be, local government”.\nIn section 8—\n(a) in each of subsections (1), (4) and (7), the words “or local government”,\n(b) subsection (3A),\n(c) in subsection (5), the words “, or at the same local government election in any electoral area,”,\n(d) in subsection (6), the words “at local government elections or at both”, and\n(e) in subsection (7)(a), the words “or, as the case may be, local government”.\nIn section 9—\n(a) in each of subsections (1), (3) and (9), the words “or local government”,\n(b) in subsection (4), the words “, at local government elections or at both” and, in paragraph (a), “, or electoral area,”,\n(c) subsection (5),\n(d) in subsection (6), paragraph (a) (including the final “and”),\n(e) in subsection (7), the words “or, as the case may be, electoral area”,\n(f) in each of subsections (8) and (9)(a), the words “in respect of elections of the kind in question”,\n(g) in subsection (10)(a), the words “local government electors or both (as the case may be)”, and\n(h) in subsection (11), the words “, or electoral area,”.\n1989 c. 3.\nElected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989.\nSection 11(1).\nIn Part II of Schedule 1, paragraphs 9 to 11.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 Pt. III wholly in force at 16.2.2001, see s. 17(3) and S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1) (subject to art 2(3-5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/2/schedule/7/part/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:30.953153+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."
}