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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-73",
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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/73",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Refusal to issue postal ballot paper",
  "text": "Where a returning officer is satisfied that two or more entries in the absent voters list, or the list of postal proxies or in each of those lists relate to the same elector, he shall not issue more than one ballot paper in respect of that elector at any one election.",
  "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/73",
    "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."
}