{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013/section-13",
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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": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Amendments and transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 contains amendments to do with this Part.\n(2) Schedule 5 makes transitional provision to do with this Part.\n(3) In relation to an offence committed in England and Wales before 2 May 2022 , the reference to the general limit in a magistrates’ court in paragraph 13(1ZD)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (inserted by Schedule 2 to this Act) is to be read as a reference to 6 months.\n(4) In relation to an offence committed in England and Wales before the commencement of section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, the reference to 51 weeks in paragraph 13(1ZD)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (inserted by Schedule 2 to this Act) is to be read as a reference to 6 months.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 13(3) substituted (28.4.2022) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/500), regs. 1(2), 5(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 13(3) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13(1) in force at 10.6.2014 for E.W. and 19.9.2014 for S. by S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 13(1)(2) in force at 15.9.2014 for N.I. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 13(2) in force at 5.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/219, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 13(2) in force at 10.6.2014 for E.W. in so far as not already in force and 19.9.2014 for S. by S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 13(3)(4) in force at 26.2.2014 by S.I. 2014/414, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/6/section/13",
    "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."
}