{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-64.json",
  "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/64",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part V",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“absent voters list” means the list kept under paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act;\n“agent” includes the election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent’s place;\n“ballot paper envelope” and “covering envelope” mean the envelopes referred to in regulation 74 below;\n“list of postal proxies” means the list kept under paragraph 7(8) of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act;\n“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;\n“postal voter” means an elector or proxy who is entitled to vote by post;\n“postal voters' ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in regulation 81(1)(a) above;\n“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”, and other references to specified receptacles, means the receptacles referred to in regulation 81(5) below;\n“spoilt postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper referred to in regulation 77(1) below;\n“universal postal service provider” has the meaning given in the Postal Services Act 2000 to a “universal service provider”; and\n“valid declaration of identity” means one falling within regulation 85(1) below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110595629/regulation/64",
    "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."
}