{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-6/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022/schedule-6/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/37",
  "legislation_title": "Elections Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Elections Act 2001",
  "text": "(1) The Schedule to the Elections Act 2001 (modification of the local election rules for occasions where polls are combined) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph 6 (Parliamentary elections rules: questions to be put to voters) substitute—\n“6 In rule 35, in the table after paragraph (1), after “this” insert “parliamentary”—\n(a) in entry 1, in each of paragraphs (a) and (b);\n(b) in entry 2, in each of paragraphs (a) to (e);\n(c) in entry 3, in each of paragraphs (a) to (e).”\n(3) In paragraph 20 (local elections rules: questions to be put to voters), for “the second question in paragraph (2)” substitute “in each of questions (a), (b) and (c) in paragraph (2)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 31 in force at 31.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(e)(ix) (with Sch. para. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/37/schedule/6/paragraph/31",
    "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."
}