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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-53",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1913",
  "legislation_title": "The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/53",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Penalty for unauthorised person sitting or voting",
  "text": "(1) Any person who sits or votes in the House of Assembly knowing, or having reasonable grounds for believing, that he or she is not entitled to do so shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars for each day on which he or she so sits or votes.\n(2) The penalty referred to in subsection (1) shall be recoverable by action in the Supreme Court at the suit of the Attorney General.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "appl (mod)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/701",
      "affecting_title": "The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Interim Amendment) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "suspended in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/701",
      "affecting_title": "The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Interim Amendment) Order 2009"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1913/schedule/2/paragraph/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:25:42.847211+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."
}