{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/12",
  "legislation_title": "Political Parties and Elections Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Selection of prospective Electoral Commissioners and Commission chairman",
  "text": "(1) Section 3 of the 2000 Act (appointment of Electoral Commissioners etc) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (2) there is substituted—\n“(2) A motion for such an Address may be made only if—\n(a) the Speaker of the House of Commons agrees that the motion may be made;\n(b) the motion has been the subject of consultation with the registered leader of each registered party to which two or more Members of the House of Commons then belong; and\n(c) each person whose appointment is proposed in the motion has been selected in accordance with a procedure put in place and overseen by the Speaker's Committee.”\n(3) After subsection (5) there is inserted—\n“(5A) In the case of a re-appointment (or further re-appointment) of an Electoral Commissioner, the reference in subsection (2)(c) to being selected in accordance with a procedure put in place and overseen by the Speaker's Committee is to be read as including a reference to being recommended for re-appointment (or further re-appointment) by that Committee.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/12/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:05.670691+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."
}