{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022-commencement-no-5-and-savings-regulations-2022/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022-commencement-no-5-and-savings-regulations-2022/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1270",
  "legislation_title": "The Elections Act 2022 (Commencement No. 5 and Savings) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022-commencement-no-5-and-savings-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 29th December 2022",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Elections Act 2022 come into force on 29th December 2022—\n(a) section 9 (assistance with voting for persons with disabilities), so far as not already in force;\n(b) section 12 (local elections and Assembly elections in Northern Ireland), so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 6 brought into force by paragraph (c);\n(c) the following paragraphs of Schedule 6 (local elections in Northern Ireland and elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly)—\n(i) paragraphs 1 and 6, so far as those paragraphs relate to the provisions brought into force by sub-paragraphs (ii) to (iv);\n(ii) in paragraph 12—\n(aa) sub-paragraph (1), so far as it relates to the provisions brought into force by paragraphs (bb) to (dd);\n(bb) sub-paragraph (3);\n(cc) sub-paragraph (4), so far as not already in force;\n(dd) sub-paragraph (5);\n(iii) in paragraph 16—\n(aa) sub-paragraph (1), so far as it relates to the provision brought into force by paragraph (bb);\n(bb) sub-paragraphs (2) and (4);\n(iv) paragraph 22;\n(v) paragraph 34(b);\n(vi) paragraph 35, so far as it relates to the provision brought into force by sub-paragraph (vii);\n(vii) paragraph 46.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1270/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:52:41.313229+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."
}