{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-18A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-18A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1917",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012",
  "path": "article/18A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18A",
  "heading": "Influencing voters at polling booths",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is with another person at a polling booth, and\n(b) intends to influence that other person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting,\ncommits an offence.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) is near a polling booth when another person is at that booth, and\n(b) intends to influence that other person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting,\ncommits an offence.\n(3) For the purposes of this article—\n(a) a “polling booth” is a compartment in a polling station in which voters can mark votes screened from observation;\n(b) assisting a person with voting, in accordance with rule 41 of Schedule 3 or any other legislation, is not influencing that person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting;\n(c) a person may be near one polling booth while at a different polling booth.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under this article is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, to a fine or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 18A inserted (2.5.2024) by The Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections, Recall Petitions and Referendums (Ballot Secrecy, Candidates and Undue Influence) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1141), regs. 1(3), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/article/18A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:32.209917+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."
}