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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-improvement-districts-scotland-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/202",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
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  "number": "12",
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  "text": "(1) Where a voter has not received their ballot paper by the seventh working day before the day of the ballot, that voter may apply (whether or not in person) to the ballot holder for a replacement ballot paper.\n(2) Such an application shall include evidence of the voter’s identity.\n(3) Where the application is received by the ballot holder later than the date that is 3 working days prior to the day of the ballot and the ballot holder–\n(a) is satisfied as to the voter’s identity; and\n(b) has no reason to doubt that the voter did not receive the original ballot paper,\nthe ballot holder shall issue another ballot paper.\n(4) Where a voter applies in person, the ballot holder may hand a replacement ballot paper to that voter instead of delivering it in accordance with paragraph 10.",
  "extent": null,
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      "type": "am (1.1.2009)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/359",
      "affecting_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (1.1.2009)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/359",
      "affecting_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008"
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      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2011 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) Order 2011"
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    {
      "type": "Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(b) renumbered as. Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(a)",
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      "affecting_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008"
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    {
      "type": "Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(c) renumbered as. Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(b)",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:14:09.328959+00:00"
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  "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."
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