{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-parliamentary-constituencies-england-amendment-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/898",
  "legislation_title": "The Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England) (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-parliamentary-constituencies-england-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After article 4 of the 1995 Order there shall be inserted the following article:\n“4A In the case of a county constituency listed in the left-hand column of Schedule 2A to this Order (being a constituency which is not coterminous with or wholly contained in a county, as defined by section 38 of the Sheriffs Act 1887), the returning officer for a parliamentary election shall be the sheriff of the county (as so defined) listed in the right-hand column of that Schedule opposite to the name of the constituency.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1887 c. 55; the definition of “county” in section 38 was substituted by S.I. 1995/1748."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/898/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:50.791847+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."
}