{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/22",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Administration Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Candidate not to stand in more than one constituency",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules), in rule 8(3) (candidate's consent to nomination), after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c) shall state that he is not a candidate at an election for any other constituency the poll for which is to be held on the same day as that for the election to which the consent relates,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 wholly in force at 1.7.2008; s. 22 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 77; s. 22 in force for E.W.S. at 1.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14(i) (subject to Sch. 2); s. 22 in force for N.I. at 1.7.2008 by S.I. 2008/1316, arts. 2(2), 4(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/22/section/22",
    "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."
}