{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/schedule-NINTH/paragraph-26A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/schedule-NINTH/paragraph-26A.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1962/14",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962",
  "path": "schedule/NINTH/paragraph/26A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is with another person at a polling booth, and\n(b) intends to influence that other person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting,\ncommits an offence.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) is near a polling booth when another person is at that booth, and\n(b) intends to influence that other person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting,\ncommits an offence.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) a “polling booth” is a compartment in a polling station in which voters can mark votes screened from observation;\n(b) assisting a person with voting, in accordance with rule 36 of Schedule 5 or any other legislation, is not influencing that person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting;\n(c) a person may be near one polling booth while at a different polling booth.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 26A inserted (2.5.2024) by Ballot Secrecy Act 2023 (c. 12), ss. 2(1)(b), 3(4); S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1962/14/schedule/NINTH/paragraph/26A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:59.497504+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."
}