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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/562/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990</dc:title><dc:subject>General elections</dc:subject><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2011-07-04</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE</dc:subject>
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<Number>1990 No. 562</Number>
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<Title>REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE</Title>
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<Title>The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>8th March 1990</DateText>
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<Text>Coming into force</Text>
<DateText>8th March 1990</DateText>
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<Text>Whereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;</Text>
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<Text>Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/>, I hereby make the following Regulations:</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990.</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations extend to Northern Ireland only.</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations shall come into effect forthwith.</Text>
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<Text>In these Regulations “the European Regulations of 1986” mean the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986<FootnoteRef Ref="f00002"/>.</Text>
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<Text>At the end of regulation 5(2) of the European Regulations of 1986 (application of certain provisions for European Parliamentary elections) there shall be added the following:</Text>
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<Text>The entries in that Schedule in respect of regulations 4(1), 7, 11, 54, 55, 56, 63, 64, 66, 69, 73, 91 and 95 of, and form H in Schedule 2 to, the Regulations of 1986<FootnoteRef Ref="f00003"/> are to those regulations and that form as amended by the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990<FootnoteRef Ref="f00004"/>; except that any such amendment shall have effect for the purposes of the application of those amended provisions by virtue of this paragraph only to the extent that it is in force under regulation 2 of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990.</Text>
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<Text>In Schedule 2 to the European Regulations of 1986 (application and modification of provisions of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986) shall be amended as follows.</Text>
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<Text>In the modification in the right-hand column of that Schedule to regulation 4(1) of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986, the words “overseas attesting officer” shall be omitted.</Text>
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<Text>In the modification in that right-hand column to regulation 54 of those Regulations, there shall be added the words “Paragraph (4) shall be omitted”.</Text>
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<PersonName>P. L. Brooke</PersonName>
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<DateText>8th March 1990</DateText>
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<Text>(This note is not part of the Regulations)</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations amend the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986 which apply in Northern Ireland only.</Text>
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<Text>Regulation 4 of these Regulations applies certain amendments that are made to the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986 by the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections. Regulation 5 of these Regulations makes consequential textual amendment to the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/10" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1978" Number="0010">1978 c. 10</Citation>; the citation of this Act has been amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/58" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1986" Number="0058">1986 (c. 58)</Citation> on the coming into force of the Single European Act (<Abbreviation Expansion="Command Paper">Cmnd.</Abbreviation> 9758) on 1st July 1987.</Text>
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<Text><Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/2250" id="c00003" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="2250">1986/2250</Citation>; the citation of this instrument has been amended by the provisions referred to in the first footnote to these Regulations; it has also been amended by regulations which are not relevant in the present context.</Text>
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<Text>S.I. <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/1091" id="c00004" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="1091">1986/1091</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text>S.I. <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/561" id="c00005" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1990" Number="0561">1990/561</Citation>.</Text>
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