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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-22",
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  "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/5/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An absent voting application made by a relevant person on or after the commencement date is not to be refused merely because the person has not made a successful new application for registration (but see paragraph 21).\n(2) “Absent voting application” means an application under paragraph 3(1) or (2) or 4(1) or (2) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 22 in force at 10.6.2014 for E.W. and 19.9.2014 for S. by S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 22 in force at 15.9.2014 for N.I. by S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(m)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/6/schedule/5/paragraph/22",
    "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."
}