{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-6/paragraph-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-6/paragraph-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/37",
  "legislation_title": "Elections Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "text": "(1) In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454), paragraph 3 (proxies at local elections) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a local election unless the person is or will be registered in—\n(a) a register of local electors in Northern Ireland, or\n(b) a register of local government electors in Great Britain maintained under section 9 of the 1983 Act.”\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2)—\n(a) omit the “or” at the end of paragraph (a);\n(b) omit paragraph (b).\n(4) For sub-paragraph (4) substitute—\n“(4) A person—\n(a) is not entitled to vote as proxy at a local election on behalf of more than two electors who do not fall within sub-paragraph (4A), but\n(b) subject to paragraph (a), is entitled to vote as proxy at a local election on behalf of up to four electors.\n(4A) An elector falls within this sub-paragraph if the elector is registered in a register of local electors in pursuance of a service declaration.\n(4B) Where the polls for two or more local elections are held on the same day, references in sub-paragraph (4) to a local election are to all of those elections taken together.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 28 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 28(1) in force at 31.10.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 2(g)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 28(1) in force at 31.1.2024 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(e)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 28(2)(3) in force at 31.10.2023 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 2(g)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 28(4) in force at 31.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(e)(viii) (with Sch. para. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/37/schedule/6/paragraph/28",
    "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."
}