{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-amendment-rules-2004/schedule-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-amendment-rules-2004/schedule-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/227",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-amendment-rules-2004",
  "path": "schedule/6",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "New Schedule 12 to the GLA Elections Rules",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 12\nREQUIREMENTS FOR NOTICES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF VOTERS\n1. Notices shall be provided for the guidance of voters at any GLA election at which a poll is to be taken.\n2. Notices shall be provided for display outside polling stations and inside polling stations and inside polling booths and (subject to the following requirements of this Schedule) may differ depending upon in which of those places they are to be displayed.\n3. Notices provided shall be of the same description and appearance or in a form to the like effect for use at all polling stations in all constituencies.\n4. Notices shall not contain—\n(a) any matter not relating to guidance to voters as to how to exercise their vote in a manner that will ensure that it is regarded as validly cast;\n(b) any material referring to or promoting any candidate or party at the election, other than such name and particulars of such candidate or registered party as may appear on a ballot paper at the election;\n(c) any example or illustration referring to a candidate or a party that does not equally refer to all candidates and registered parties (as the case may be) at the election.\n5. Notices for display inside a polling station shall contain information explaining—\n(a) which election each ballot paper is for;\n(b) how many votes a voter has in each election;\n(c) the marks to be used, and the manner in which they should be used, in order to ensure that a vote is counted for any candidate or party (as the case may be);\n(d) (in the case of an election where there is a manual count) that a voter should check the ballot paper has been stamped with an official mark;\n(e) (in the case of an election where there is a manual count) that a voter should fold the ballot paper in two before putting it in the ballot box;\n(f) where the voter is to put the ballot paper after recording his vote; and\n(g) what to do if the voter spoils a ballot paper.\n6. Notices for display inside a polling station may also contain information giving examples or illustration of any of the kinds of information in paragraph 5 of this Schedule.\n7. Notices for display inside a polling booth shall contain information explaining—\n(a) which election each ballot paper is for;\n(b) how many votes a voter has in each election.\n8. Notices for display inside a polling booth may also contain—\n(a) the information mentioned in paragraph 5(c) to (g) of this Schedule; and\n(b) information giving examples or illustration of any of the information mentioned in paragraph 5(a) to (g) of this Schedule.\n9. All notices shall be easily legible.\n10. In this Schedule, “registered party” means a party registered under Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/227/schedule/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:34:48.692131+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."
}