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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wales-act-2017-consequential-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wales-act-2017-consequential-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/272",
  "legislation_title": "The Wales Act 2017 (Consequential and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wales-act-2017-consequential-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Saving",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007 continues to have effect from 1st April 2018 as it had effect immediately before that day.\n(2) From 1st April 2018 article 16 of, and Schedule 4 to, that Order (combination of polls at Assembly and local government elections) no longer have effect in relation to the combination of the polls at an ordinary Assembly general election and an ordinary local government election.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/236, amended by the Wales Act 2014 (c. 29) and S.I.s 2009/1182, 2010/1142, 2010/2931, 2011/1441, 2011/2085, 2012/1479, 2012/1809, 2013/388, 2013/591, 2015/664, 2016/211, 2016/272 and 2017/52 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/1179 (c. 111) provides that sections 3, 5 and 6 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Wales Act 2017 come into force on 1st April 2018."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/272/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:01:07.361579+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."
}