{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-132",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-132.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/22",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Administration Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/132",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "132",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For rule 36 of that Schedule (challenge of voter) substitute—\n“36 A person shall not be prevented from voting by reason only that—\n(a) a candidate or his election or polling agent declares that he has reasonable cause to believe that the person has committed an offence of personation, or\n(b) the person is arrested on the grounds that he is suspected of committing or of being about to commit such an offence.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 132 wholly in force at 1.7.2008; Sch. 1 para. 132 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 77; Sch. 1 para. 132 in force for E.W.S. at 1.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14 (bb)(v) (subject to Sch. 2); Sch. 1 para. 132 in force for N.I. at 1.7.2008 by S.I. 2008/1316, arts. 2(2), 4(z)(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/22/schedule/1/paragraph/132",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:27.599518+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."
}