{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110595629",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Power to require information",
  "text": "(1) A registration officer may require any person to give information required for the purposes of that officer’s duties in maintaining registers of parliamentary and local government electors.\n(2) If any person–\n(a) fails to comply with, or\n(b) gives false information in pursuance of,\nany such requisition of the registration officer, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110595629/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:06.168153+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."
}