{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-crofting-commission-elections-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-crofting-commission-elections-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-59.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/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence, if, at an election, he or she—\n(a) intentionally defaces or destroys any nomination paper;\n(b) intentionally defaces or destroys any ballot paper or official envelope used in connection with voting by post;\n(c) without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person;\n(d) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election; or\n(e) intentionally or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the acts mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d).\n(2) If a returning officer or a member of his or her staff attending at the counting of the votes commits an offence under this regulation, he or she is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to both.\n(3) If any other person commits an offence under this regulation, he or she is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both.",
  "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/59",
    "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."
}