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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-crofting-commission-elections-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-60",
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  "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/60",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Elections: false information in nomination papers etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if he or she causes or permits to be included in a document delivered or otherwise furnished to the returning officer for use in connection with the election—\n(a) a statement of the name or home address of a candidate at the election which he or she knows to be false in any particular; or\n(b) anything which purports to be the signature of an elector who nominates such a candidate but which he or she knows—\n(i) was not written by the elector by whom it purports to have been written; or\n(ii) if written by that elector, was not written by the elector for the purpose of nominating that candidate.\n(2) A person commits an offence if he or she makes in any document in which that person gives consent to his or her nomination as a candidate at the election a statement which that person knows to be false in any particular as to—\n(a) his or her date of birth; or\n(b) his or her qualification for being elected at the election.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a statement as to a candidate’s qualification is a statement—\n(a) that he or she is qualified for being elected;\n(b) that he or she will be qualified for being elected; or\n(c) that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief he or she is not disqualified for being elected.",
  "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/60",
    "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."
}