{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Effect of register of electors",
  "text": "(1) Any entry in the register of electors, if it gives a date as that on which the person named will attain voting age, is conclusive for any purpose of this Part relating to that person as elector that until the date given in the entry the person is not of voting age nor entitled to be treated as an elector except for the purposes of a PCC election at which the day fixed for the poll is that or a later date.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies to an entry in the record of anonymous entries as it applies to an entry in the register of electors.\n(3) A person registered in the register of electors, or entered in the list of proxies, is not excluded from voting at a PCC election on any of the grounds specified in paragraph (4): but this does not prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny, or affect the person's liability to any penalty for voting.\n(4) The grounds are—\n(a) that the person is not of voting age;\n(b) that the person is not or was not at any particular time—\n(i) a Commonwealth citizen,\n(ii) a citizen of the Republic of Ireland,\n(iii) a qualifying EU citizen or an EU citizen with retained rights;\n(c) that the person is or was at any particular time otherwise subject to any other legal incapacity to vote.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(4)(b) substituted (10.6.2014) by The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/921), arts. 1(4), 4(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 4(4)(b)(iii) substituted (7.5.2024) by The Representation of the People (Franchise Amendment and Eligibility Review) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1150), regs. 1(2), 36(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(4)(c) substituted (10.6.2014) by The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/921), arts. 1(4), 4(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 4(5) omitted (10.6.2014) by virtue of The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/921), arts. 1(4), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/article/4",
    "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."
}