{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-69",
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  "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/69",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Undue influence",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if the person is guilty of undue influence.\n(2) A person (“P”) is guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within paragraph (4) for the purpose of—\n(a) inducing or compelling a person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting, or\n(b) otherwise impeding or preventing the free exercise of the franchise of an elector or of a proxy for an elector.\n(3) A person (“P”) is also guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) of paragraph (4) on account of—\n(a) a person having voted in a particular way or refrained from voting, or\n(b) P assuming a person to have voted in a particular way or to have refrained from voting.\n(4) The following activities fall within this paragraph—\n(a) using or threatening to use violence against a person;\n(b) damaging or destroying, or threatening to damage or destroy, a person’s property;\n(c) damaging or threatening to damage a person’s reputation;\n(d) causing or threatening to cause financial loss to a person;\n(e) causing spiritual injury to, or placing undue spiritual pressure on, a person;\n(f) doing any other act designed to intimidate a person;\n(g) doing any act designed to deceive a person in relation to the administration of a PCC election.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3) an activity is carried out by a person (“P”) if it is carried out—\n(a) by P,\n(b) by P jointly with one or more other persons, or\n(c) by one or more other persons on behalf of P and with P’s authority or consent.\n(6) In paragraph (4)(f) and (g) “act” includes an omission (and references to the doing of an act are to be read accordingly).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 69 substituted (1.11.2023) 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(2), 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/article/69",
    "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."
}