{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/22",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Administration Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Registered names of parties",
  "text": "In section 28 of the 2000 Act (registration of parties), after subsection (4)(d) insert—\n“(da) would be likely, were it to appear on a ballot paper issued at an election—\n(i) to result in an elector being misled as to the effect of his vote, or\n(ii) to contradict, or hinder an elector's understanding of, any directions for his guidance in voting given on the ballot paper or elsewhere,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 wholly in force at 11.9.2006, see s. 77(2)-(4) and S.I. 2006/1972, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 9 (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/22/section/48",
    "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."
}