{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/22",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Administration Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Discretion to report on certain elections",
  "text": "In section 5 of the 2000 Act (reports on elections and referendums), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) After—\n(a) a parliamentary by-election,\n(b) an election held under section 9 of the Scotland Act 1998 (election for the Scottish Parliament in the case of a constituency vacancy), or\n(c) an election held under section 8 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (election for the National Assembly for Wales in the case of a constituency vacancy),\nthe Commission may prepare and publish (in such manner as the Commission may determine) a report on the administration of the election.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 wholly in force at 1.7.2008; s. 28 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 77; s. 28 in force for E.W.S. at 1.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14(m) (subject to Sch. 2); s. 28 in force for N.I. at 1.7.2008 by S.I. 2008/1316, arts. 2(2), 4(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/22/section/28",
    "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."
}