{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-absent-voting-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-absent-voting-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-29.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/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Postal vote signature discrepancies",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where immediately before the relevant day—\n(a) a person (“P”) has—\n(i) a devolved postal vote entitlement, and\n(ii) a reserved postal vote entitlement, and\n(b) the signature kept in the registration officer’s record in respect of P’s devolved postal vote entitlement differs from the signature kept in the registration officer’s record in respect of P’s reserved postal vote entitlement.\n(2) The registration officer must apply the signature kept in the registration officer’s record in respect of P’s reserved postal vote entitlement as the sole signature kept in the registration officer’s record as the signature for both P’s devolved postal vote entitlement and P’s reserved postal vote entitlement with effect from the relevant day.\n(3) As soon as practicable after the relevant day, the registration officer must apply the signature referred to in paragraph (2) to all records, as applicable to P, kept under—\n(a) article 8(9) or 9(8) and paragraph 22 of schedule 3 of the 2015 Order, or\n(b) paragraph 3(9) or 4(6) of schedule 4 of the 2000 Act, and\n(c) where records listed in sub-paragraph (b) are being updated—\n(i) section 21(6) of the 2006 Act, or\n(ii) regulation 61B of the 2001 Regulations.\n(4) The replacement signature applied under paragraph (3) is—\n(a) deemed to be a signature provided under paragraph 3(1) of schedule 3 of the 2015 Order, paragraph 7A(1) of schedule 4 of the 2000 Act or section 22(2) of the 2006 Act, and\n(b) paragraph 3(2) of schedule 3 of the 2015 Order, paragraph 7A(2) of schedule 4 of the 2000 Act or section 22(4) of the 2006 Act (as the case may be) applies to that signature.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraphs 3(9) and 4(6) were inserted by section 14(1) and (2) of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 61B was inserted by S.I. 2008/305 and amended by S.I. 2015/1966."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 7A was inserted by section 14(4) of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2026/9780111065211/regulation/29",
    "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."
}