{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/37",
  "legislation_title": "Elections Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 1A is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(a), for the words from the first “who is” to the end substitute “within sub-paragraph (1A),”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) The following persons are within this sub-paragraph—\n(a) a person who is registered in a register maintained by the registration officer;\n(b) a person who is named in—\n(i) an application for registration in, or alteration of, a register,\n(ii) an application (including a partially completed application) under section 13BD, 13BE or 13C, or\n(iii) a relevant absent voting application.\n(1B) In sub-paragraph (1A)(b)(i), the reference to an application for registration in, or alteration of, a register includes a reference to a partially completed application submitted through the UK digital service.”\n(4) After sub-paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) In sub-paragraph (1), the reference to disclosing information includes, in relation to verifying information relating to a person who is named in a relevant registration application or a relevant absent voting application, references to disclosing evidence provided by a person in connection with the application.\n(7) In this paragraph—\n(a) “relevant absent voting application” means—\n(i) an application (including a partially completed application) under paragraph 3, 4 or 6 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000, other than an application in relation to a local government election, or local government elections, in Scotland or Wales, or\n(ii) an application (including a partially completed application) under section 6, 7 or 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n(b) “relevant registration application” means an application (including a partially completed application) for registration in, or alteration of—\n(i) a register of parliamentary electors, or\n(ii) a register of local government electors in England,\nand includes a form (or partially completed form) in connection with a canvass under section 10;\n(c) “the UK digital service” means a digital service provided by a Minister of the Crown for the registration of electors, and the reference in sub-paragraph (1B) to an application submitted through the UK digital service is a reference to an application submitted using that service as an intermediary.\n(8) A notice, including a partially completed notice, under section 8(9) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (cancellation of proxy appointment) is to be treated as a relevant absent voting application for the purposes of this paragraph.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 27.8.2022 by S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/37/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:13.345203+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."
}