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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Further amendments about registration.",
  "text": "Schedules 1, 2 and 3, which make consequential and connected amendments of—\n(a) the 1983 Act,\n(b) sections 1 to 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (overseas electors), and\n(c) the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989,\nrespectively, shall have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1989 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 wholly in force at 16.2.2001; S. 8 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 17(3); S. 8 in force at 29.1.2001 insofar as it confers power to make regulations and in force at 16.2.2001 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (subject to art 2(3-5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/2/section/8",
    "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."
}