{"id":220,"date":"2013-03-05T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:55:32","slug":"electoral-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/elections-and-voting\/electoral-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Below you will find links to recent government legislation that effects electoral registration and elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1983\/2\" rel=\"noopener\">Representation of the People Act 1983<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2000\/2\/contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representation of the People Act 2000<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmso.gov.uk\/si\/si2002\/20021871.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">Representation of the People (England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2002<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2000\/41\/contents\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/acts\/acts2000\/ukpga_20000022_en_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Government Act 2000<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2006\/22\/contents\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral Administration Act 2006<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2009\/12\/contents\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Parties and Elections Act 2009<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2011\/20\/contents\" rel=\"noopener\">Localism Act 2011<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2012\/7\/contents\/enacted\" rel=\"noopener\">Health and Social Care Act 2012<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2013\/6\/contents\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/Elections Act 2022\">Elections Act 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below you will find links to recent government legislation that effects electoral registration and elections.<\/p>\n <span class=\"orange text-excerpt\">&gt;<\/span>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":150,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 19:08:34","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12242,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/12242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}