SCHEDULE 4 Proxy Voting: Limits and Transitional Provision
Elections Act 2022 (2022 c 37) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 4 Proxy Voting: Limits and Transitional Provision

Section 6

Representation of the People Act 1983

1

RPA 1983 is amended as follows.

2

(1)     Section 61 (other voting offences) is amended as follows.

(2)     After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)     A person (“Pâ€) is guilty of an offence if P applies for the appointment of a proxy to vote for P—

(a)     at a parliamentary election, where P knows that the person to be appointed is already appointed as proxy to vote at that election, or at parliamentary elections, for four or more other electors;

(b)     at a parliamentary election where—

(i)     P is or will be registered in a register of parliamentary electors otherwise than in pursuance of an overseas elector's declaration or a service declaration, and

(ii)     P knows that the person to be appointed is already appointed as proxy to vote at that election, or at parliamentary elections, for two or more other electors none of whom is registered in a register of parliamentary electors in pursuance of an overseas elector's declaration or a service declaration;

(c)     at a local government election in England, where P knows that the person to be appointed

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