{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/22",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Administration Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 4, after sub-paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) Where a person who has an anonymous entry in the register of electors for a parliamentary or local government election applies to the registration officer to vote by proxy at a particular such election the registration officer shall grant the application if it meets the prescribed requirements.\n(2B) Sub-paragraph (2A) does not apply to an application to vote by proxy at a local government election in Scotland.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 21 wholly in force at 1.1.2007, see s. 77 and S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 12(a) (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/22/schedule/1/paragraph/21",
    "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."
}