{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/absent-voting-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/absent-voting-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/48",
  "legislation_title": "The Absent Voting (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/absent-voting-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Absent Voting (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 8th February 2008.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“absent voter” means a person whose application under paragraph 3(1) or (2), paragraph 4(1) or (2) or paragraph 7(4) of Schedule 4 has been granted in consequence of an application that did not contain a specimen of that person’s signature and his or her date of birth;\n“absent voting records” means any one or more of the records kept pursuant to paragraph 3(4) or 7(6) of Schedule 4 or the lists kept pursuant to paragraph 5(2) or (3) or paragraph 7(8) of Schedule 4; and\n“Schedule 4” means Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000.\n(3) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 2. Schedule 4 was amended by sections 14, 35 and 38 of, and by Schedule 1 to, the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/48/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:57.233956+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."
}