Elections Act 2022, Paragraph 7 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
7(1)Paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (proxies at parliamentary elections and local government elections in Great Britain) is amended as follows.
(2)After sub-paragraph (5B) insert—
“(5C)A person—
(a)is not entitled to vote as proxy at a parliamentary election, or at a local government election in England, on behalf of more than two electors who do not fall within sub-paragraph (5D), but
(b)subject to paragraph (a), is entitled to vote as proxy at any such election on behalf of up to four electors.
(5D)An elector falls within this sub-paragraph—
(a)in relation to a parliamentary election, if the elector is registered in a register of parliamentary electors in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration or a service declaration;
(b)in relation to a local government election in England, if the elector is registered in a register of local government electors in England in pursuance of a service declaration.
(5E)Where the polls for two or more parliamentary elections are held on the same day, references in sub-paragraph (5C) to a parliamentary election are to all of those elections taken together.
(5F)Where the polls for two or more local government elections in England are held on the same day, references in sub-paragraph (5C) to a local government election in England are to all of those elections taken together.”
(3)In sub-paragraph (6)—
(a)omit paragraph (a);
(b)in paragraph (b), after “electoral area” insert “in Wales or Scotland”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 4 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)
I2Sch. 4 para. 7 in force at 31.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1145, reg. 4(d)(v) (with Sch. para. 4)
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