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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-amendment-regulations-1989/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1304",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "ENABLING POWERS",
  "text": "These Regulations are made under the following provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (“the Act of 1983”), as applied with modifications by section 2(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989, namely–\n(a) sections 15(2) and (4), 53 and 201(1) of, and paragraphs 1(2), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 11A and 13 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1983, and\n(b) having regard to the definition of “prescribed” in section 202(1) of the Act of 1983, sections 7(4), 10(b), 14(1), 16 and 56(1) and (5) of the Act of 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 53 of the Act of 1983 was amended by the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), Schedule 4, paragraph 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 4 has been amended, but the amendment is not relevant in this context."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph 5(4) has been repealed by Representation of the People Act 1985, Schedule 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph 11A was inserted by Representation of the People Act 1985, Schedule 4, paragraph 87(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 10(b) was amended by Representation of the People Act 1985, section 4(2)(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1304/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:56.076785+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."
}