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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-59",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2007/0110714245",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/59",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Retention of documents",
  "text": "The proper officer of the council shall retain amongst the records of the council–\n(a) for one year all documents; and\n(b) for four years all electronic copies of information made under rule 56(1)(a)\nrelating to an election forwarded to such officer in pursuance of these rules by a returning officer, and at the expiry of that period of one or four years, as the case may be, shall, unless otherwise directed by an order of a sheriff principal or an election court, cause them to be destroyed.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2007/0110714245/schedule/1/paragraph/59",
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  "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."
}