{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/6",
  "legislation_title": "Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 13, after sub-paragraph (1ZA) insert—\n“(1ZB) Provision making it an offence, in prescribed circumstances, for a person to process information in breach of provision made under paragraph 1A(3)(e) or (f) or 8C.\n(1ZC) Provision made under sub-paragraph (1ZB) creating an offence may not—\n(a) provide for the offence to be punishable on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term exceeding two years;\n(b) provide for the offence to be punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment for a term exceeding the relevant maximum;\n(c) provide for the offence to be punishable on summary conviction by a fine exceeding the statutory maximum or level 5 on the standard scale (as appropriate).\n(1ZD) In sub-paragraph (1ZC)(b) “the relevant maximum”—\n(a) in relation to an offence triable either on indictment or summarily, means—\n(i) in England and Wales or Scotland, 12 months, and\n(ii) in Northern Ireland, 6 months;\n(b) in relation to an offence triable only summarily, means—\n(i) in England and Wales, 51 weeks, and\n(ii) in Scotland or Northern Ireland, 6 months.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 5.2.2013 by S.I. 2013/219, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/6/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:29.715400+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."
}