{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-4/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/37",
  "legislation_title": "Elections Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Representation of the People Act 1985",
  "text": "(1) Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (proxies at parliamentary elections in Northern Ireland) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a parliamentary election unless the person is or will be registered in a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.”\n(3) In subsection (3)—\n(a) omit the “or” at the end of paragraph (a);\n(b) omit paragraph (b).\n(4) For subsection (5) substitute—\n“(5) A person—\n(a) is not entitled to vote as proxy at a parliamentary election on behalf of more than two electors who do not fall within subsection (5A), but\n(b) subject to paragraph (a), is entitled to vote as proxy at a parliamentary election on behalf of up to four electors.\n(5A) An elector falls within this subsection if the elector is registered in a register of parliamentary electors in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration or a service declaration.\n(5B) Where the polls for two or more parliamentary elections are held on the same day, references in subsection (5A) to a parliamentary election are to all of those elections taken together.”\n(5) After subsection (7) insert—\n“(7A) The requirements prescribed under subsections (6) and (7) must include a requirement for an application to contain the proxy’s date of birth.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6(1) in force at 31.10.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 2(f)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6(1) in force at 31.1.2024 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(d)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6(2)(3)(5) in force at 31.10.2023 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 2(f)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6(4) in force at 31.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(d)(iv) (with Sch. para. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/37/schedule/4/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}