{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013/section-3.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": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Proxies to be registered electors",
  "text": "In paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (absent voting in Great Britain), for sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) substitute—\n“(3) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a parliamentary election unless the person is or will be registered in a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.\n(3A) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a local government election unless the person is or will be registered in a register of local government electors in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.\n(4) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a parliamentary or local government election if the person is subject to any legal incapacity (age apart) to vote at that election as an elector.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 10.6.2014 for E.W. and 19.9.2014 for S. by S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/6/section/3",
    "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."
}