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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-act-2015/section-94",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/20",
  "legislation_title": "Deregulation Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-act-2015",
  "path": "section/94",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Electoral Commission: changes to facilitate efficient administration",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (the Electoral Commission) is amended as follows.\n(2) Paragraph 15 (five-year plan) is amended as set out in subsections (3) and (4).\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1), after “paragraph 14” insert “ in respect of the first financial year to begin after the day on which Parliament meets for the first time following a parliamentary general election, ”.\n(4) After that sub-paragraph insert—\n“(1A) The Speaker's Committee may require the Commission to submit a plan under sub-paragraph (1) when the Commission submit such an estimate as is mentioned in paragraph 14 in respect of a financial year other than one mentioned in that sub-paragraph.”\n(5) In paragraph 16 (annual examination of Commission by Comptroller and Auditor General), in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) after “paragraphs 14 and 15” insert “ in respect of any year when both an estimate under paragraph 14 and a five-year plan under paragraph 15 are submitted to them, ”;\n(b) for “in each year” substitute “ before the Committee consider the estimate and plan ”.\n(6) In the cross-heading preceding paragraph 16, for “Annual examination” substitute “ Examination ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 94 in force at 1.1.2016 by S.I. 2015/1732, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/20/section/94",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:53.696731+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."
}