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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/81/article/3/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Amendment) Rules 2001</dc:title><dc:subject>Voting</dc:subject><dc:subject>Local elections</dc:subject><dc:subject>Electoral registration</dc:subject><dc:subject>Visual impairment</dc:subject><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>
					<dc:description>These Rules amend the Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules 1986. Those Rules apply in England to elections to a county, district or London borough council and in Wales to elections to a county or county borough council.</dc:description>
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<Text>For rule 4(3) (nomination of candidates) substitute:</Text>
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<Text>a description (of not more than six words in length) which is authorised as mentioned in rule 4A(1) below<FootnoteRef Ref="f00004"/>; or</Text>
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<Text>Rule 4A was inserted by <Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1999/394" id="c00006" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1999" Number="0394">1999/394</Citation>.</Text>
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