{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2000/schedule-3/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2000/schedule-3/paragraph-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2000",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Use of schools and public rooms",
  "text": "(1) The CRO may use, free of charge, for the purpose of taking the poll or counting the votes—\n(a) a room in a school maintained or assisted by a local education authority or a school in respect of which grants are made out of moneys provided by Parliament to the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school;\n(b) a room the expense of maintaining which is met by any local authority.\n(2) The use of a room in an unoccupied hereditament for that purpose or those purposes does not render a person liable to any payment by way of council tax or non-domestic rate in respect of that hereditament and any day on which it is so used.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies in relation to an election to fill a vacancy in the office of the Mayor.\n(4) In a case to which this paragraph applies, this rule shall have effect with the addition of the following—\n“(2A) The CRO shall make good any damage done to, and defray any expense incurred by the persons having control over, any such room as is mentioned in paragraph (1) by reason of its being used for the purpose of taking the poll or counting the votes.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/208/schedule/3/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:02.428569+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."
}