{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-6/paragraph-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-6/paragraph-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/37",
  "legislation_title": "Elections Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For paragraph 3 substitute—\n“Undue influence\n3 (1) A person is guilty of undue influence if the person carries out an activity falling within sub-paragraph (3) for the purpose of—\n(a) inducing or compelling an elector or proxy for an elector to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting, or\n(b) otherwise impeding or preventing the free exercise of the franchise of an elector or of a proxy for an elector.\n(2) A person (“P”) is also guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (f) of sub-paragraph (3) on account of—\n(a) an elector or proxy for an elector having voted in a particular way or refrained from voting, or\n(b) P assuming an elector or proxy for an elector to have voted in a particular way or to have refrained from voting.\n(3) The following activities fall within this sub-paragraph—\n(a) using or threatening to use violence against a person;\n(b) damaging or destroying, or threatening to damage or destroy, a person’s property;\n(c) damaging or threatening to damage a person’s reputation;\n(d) causing or threatening to cause financial loss to a person;\n(e) causing spiritual injury to, or placing undue spiritual pressure on, a person;\n(f) doing any other act designed to intimidate a person;\n(g) doing any act designed to deceive a person in relation to the administration of an election.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) an activity is carried out by a person (“P”) if it is carried out—\n(a) by P,\n(b) by P jointly with one or more other persons, or\n(c) by one or more other persons on behalf of P and with P’s authority or consent.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 24 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 24 in force at 1.11.2023 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 3(h)(iv)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/37/schedule/6/paragraph/24",
    "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."
}