{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110715711",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Closing date for applications",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 56 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (3A) substitute–\n“(3A) Where an application made under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4 is made–\n(a) on the grounds of the applicant’s disability and the applicant became disabled after 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the date of the poll at the election for which it is made; or\n(b) by a person to whom paragraph 2(5A) of that Schedule applies,\nthe application, or an application under paragraph 6(8) of that Schedule made by virtue of that application, shall 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(3) Omit paragraph (8).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 56 was amended by S.I. 2001/1749 and 2006/834."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110715711/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:18:41.860851+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."
}