{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 180 insert—\n“ Evidence by certificate of electoral registration.\n180A The certificate of a registration officer that any person is or is not, or was or was not at any particular time, duly registered in one of the officer’s registers in respect of any address shall be sufficient evidence of the facts stated in it; and a document purporting to be such a certificate shall be received in evidence and presumed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 20 wholly in force at 16.2.2001, see s. 17(3) and S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1) (subject to art 2(3-5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/2/schedule/1/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:30.953153+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."
}