{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-absent-voting-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-absent-voting-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2026/9780111065211",
  "legislation_title": "The Absent Voting (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-absent-voting-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Closing date for applications",
  "text": "In regulation 11 (closing date for applications)—\n(a) in paragraph (3) for “and (4B)” substitute “, (4B), (4C) and (4D)”,\n(b) after paragraph (4B) insert—\n“(4C) Where an application is made under paragraph 4(2) or 6(8) of Schedule 4 in the circumstances set out in paragraph (4D) of this regulation, the application must be refused if it is received after 5 p.m. on the day of the poll at the election for which it is made.\n(4D) The circumstances are that—\n(a) the applicant submitted the application because an earlier application submitted by that applicant under paragraph 3(2) or 6(7) of Schedule 4 is to be disregarded for the purposes of the election referred in paragraph (4C) of this regulation because that earlier application—\n(i) was submitted prior to the deadline of 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the date of the poll at the election referred to in paragraph (4C),\n(ii) was submitted via the UK digital service, and\n(iii) was not received by the registration officer until after the deadline of 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the date of the poll at the election referred to in paragraph (4C) due to a technical defect in the UK digital service, or\n(b) the application referred to in paragraph (4C) meets the conditions specified in heads (i), (ii) and (iii) of sub-paragraph (a).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 11 was relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2021/317."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2026/9780111065211/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:59.268802+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."
}