{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/section-9HC",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/section-9HC.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/22",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000",
  "path": "section/9HC",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9HC",
  "heading": "Voting at elections of elected mayors",
  "text": "(1) Each person entitled to vote as an elector at an election for the return of an elected mayor is to have one vote which may be given for a candidate to be the elected mayor.\n(2) The elected mayor is to be returned under the simple majority system ....\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1A inserted (3.12.2011 for specified purposes, 15.1.2012 for the insertion of Pt. 1A Ch. 4 so far as not already in force and ss. 9B, 9C and 9R for specified purposes, 9.3.2012 for the insertion of ss. 9H-9HE in so far as not already in force and s. 9R for specified purposes, 4.5.2012 in so far as not already in force) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 2 para. 1; S.I. 2011/2896, art. 2(e); S.I. 2012/57, art. 4(1)(b) (with arts. 6, 7, 9-11); S.I. 2012/628, art. 2(a); S.I. 2012/1008, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9HC(1) substituted (26.10.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), ss. 13(8)(a), 67(1); S.I. 2022/1093, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 9HC(2) omitted (26.10.2022) by virtue of Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), ss. 13(8)(b), 67(1); S.I. 2022/1093, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 9HC(3) omitted (26.10.2022) by virtue of Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), ss. 13(8)(c), 67(1); S.I. 2022/1093, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/22/section/9HC",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:52.095320+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."
}