The Ballot Secrecy Act 2023 (c. 12) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Ballot Secrecy Bill was introduced in the House of Lords as a private memberâÂÂs bill by Lord Hayward on 26 May 2022. It completed its Lords stages on 30 November 2022. Paul Bristow sponsored the bill in the House of Commons and it was given a second reading on 9 December 2022 without substantive debate.
The intention behind the bill was to prevent family voting.
The bill has one substantive clause, that amends section 60 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to make it a criminal offence to be "near a polling booth when another person is at that booth" with the intention "to influence that other person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting".