{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-18C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-18C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983",
  "path": "section/18C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18C",
  "heading": "Review of polling districts and places: Great Britain",
  "text": "(1) A relevant authority must during each compulsory review period carry out and complete—\n(a) a review under section 18A of all the polling districts in its area, and\n(b) a review under section 18B of all the polling places in its area.\n(2) The compulsory review periods are—\n(a) the period of 16 months beginning with 1st October 2013, and\n(b) the period of 16 months beginning with 1st October of every fifth year after that.\n(3) Subsection (1) does not prevent a relevant authority carrying out a review of some or all of the polling districts or polling places in its area at other times.\n(6) Schedule A1 has effect in relation to a review.\n(7) This section does not apply to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(1) substituted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and 16.2.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8(a), Sch. 1 para. 10; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 18A-18E substituted (1.1.2007 for E.W.S. and 1.7.2008 for N.I.) for s. 18 by Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22), ss. 16(1), 77; S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14(c) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 6, Sch. 2); S.I. 2008/1316, arts 2, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 18C(1)-(3) substituted for s. 18(1)-(5) (2.4.2013) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), ss. 17, 27(1); S.I. 2013/702, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 18C(7) inserted (12.12.2013) by The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3156), arts. 1(1), 9(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 18C heading inserted (12.12.2013) by The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3156), arts. 1(1), 9(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/18C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+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."
}