{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/16",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioners Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Voting papers and poll books to be open to inspection for six months after election.",
  "text": "Within four days after every election the returning officer, or, where the commissioners are elected for wards, the presiding officer in each ward, shall cause the voting papers delivered as aforesaid to be arranged in alphabetical order, and numbered according to the names of the voters, and shall deliver them, together with the poll books, to the clerk to the commissioners; and such clerk shall, during six months at least after every such election, keep such voting papers and poll books at his office, and shall permit any person to inspect the same on payment of a fee of 5p; and if such clerk shall refuse or fail to allow such inspection, he shall for every such refusal or failure be liable to a penalty of level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/16/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:16.289299+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."
}