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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/10",
  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Double voting.",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any enactment relating to voting offences as applied by regulations under this Act to elections of MEPs held in the United Kingdom, a person shall be guilty of an offence if, on any occasion when under Article 9 elections to the Assembly are held in all the member States, he votes otherwise than as a proxy more than once in those elections, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.\n(2) The provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 as applied by regulations under this Act shall have effect in relation to an offence under this section as they have effect in relation to an offence under section 61(2) of that Act (double voting); and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, section 61(7) of that Act (which makes such an offence an illegal practice but allows any incapacity resulting from conviction to be mitigated by the convicting court) and section 178 of that Act (prosecutions for offences committed outside the United Kingdom) shall apply accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) substituted (1.5.1999) by virtue of 1999 c. 1, s. 3(2), Sch. 3 para. 1; S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1) (with art. 2(3))"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), ss. 205(2), 206, Sch. 8 para. 21(a)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), ss. 205(2), 206, Sch. 8 para. 21(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), ss. 205(2), 206, Sch. 8 para. 21(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), ss. 205(2), 206, Sch. 8 para. 21(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/10/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:09.782128+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."
}