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  "legislation_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
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  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A postal ballot paper shall not be taken to be duly returned unless it is received by the ballot holder (either by hand or by post) or at any place for delivery specified in the notice of ballot as being a place of delivery before 5 p.m. on the day of the ballot.\n(2) On receipt of a returned ballot paper, the ballot holder shall arrange for it to be kept in a secure receptacle until the votes are counted.\n(3) No person other than the ballot holder and clerks may be present at the receipt of the ballot papers, unless permitted by the ballot holder to attend.",
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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": "word omitted",
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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"
    },
    {
      "type": "Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(c) renumbered as. Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(b)",
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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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