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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-postal-and-proxy-voting-etc-amendment-regulations-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-34",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348249682",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-postal-and-proxy-voting-etc-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/34",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Proxy signing offences and restrictions for certain proxy appointments",
  "text": "(1) Regulations 57(5) and 119(4) of the 2016 Regulations do not apply in respect of a post-commencement proxy appointment during the transitional period.\n(2) The amendments made by regulation 19(7)(b) and (16)(b) do not apply in respect of a person voting by virtue of a proxy appointment at an ongoing recall petition.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“post-commencement proxy appointment” means a proxy appointment as a result of an application made on or after 31st October 2023;\n“proxy appointment” means—\n(a) an appointment resulting from an application under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 or section 6(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 by which, by virtue of regulation 50(2) or (3) of the 2016 Regulations a person is entitled to sign a recall petition by proxy;\n(b) an appointment resulting from an application under regulation 51(2) or (6), 52(1) or (7), 53(2), (3) or (4)(b) or 54(1) or (4)(b) of the 2016 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 6 was repealed, in relation to England, Wales and Scotland, by section 12(2) of the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2). Subsection (1) was amended by paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 2000, by section 3(2) of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 13) and by S.I. 2018/699."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:43:07.310455+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."
}