{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2001/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2001/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/7",
  "legislation_title": "Elections Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Equipment of polling stations",
  "text": "(1) Rule 29 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (4) for “inside and outside every polling station” substitute “ outside every polling station and in every compartment of every polling station. ”\n(3) After paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) The notice referred to in paragraph (4)—\n(a) must clearly indicate the election to which it relates;\n(b) must be printed on paper of the same colour as the ballot papers (other than tendered ballot papers or tendered postal ballot papers) used at the election to which it relates.”\n(4) Omit paragraph (5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 5(3) inserted (15.9.2014) by The Anonymous Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1116), arts. 1(1), 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/7/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:12.284387+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."
}