{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111142967",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-union-referendum-conduct-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Officials not to act for candidates",
  "text": "Section 99 of the 1983 Act applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if for subsection (1) there were substituted—\n“(1) If—\n(a) the Chief Counting Officer,\n(b) any Regional Counting Officer,\n(c) any counting officer for a voting area in the United Kingdom,\n(d) any officer, deputy or clerk appointed by a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or\n(e) any officer whose services have been placed at the disposal of a counting officer or Regional Counting Officer under paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 3 to the European Union Referendum Act 2015,\nacts as a referendum agent for a permitted participant, he shall be guilty of an offence.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 99 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111142967/schedule/1/paragraph/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:43.057571+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."
}