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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-crofting-commission-elections-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-crofting-commission-elections-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-57.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111015322",
  "legislation_title": "The Crofting Commission (Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-crofting-commission-elections-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/57",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Offences relating to applications for absent and proxy votes",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if he or she—\n(a) engages in an act specified in paragraph (2) at an election; and\n(b) intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote or to make for himself or herself or another a gain of a vote to which he or she or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.\n(2) These acts are—\n(a) applying for an absent or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);\n(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for an absent or proxy vote;\n(c) inducing the registration officer or returning officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to an absent or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the elector;\n(d) causing a communication relating to an absent or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.\n(3) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of an offence under paragraph (1) commits an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111015322/regulation/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:36:55.658804+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."
}