{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-19",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111014639",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Supply of free copy of register, lists and notices",
  "text": "(1) Each electoral registration officer must, on the request of the relevant returning officer, supply free of charge to the returning officer as many printed copies of—\n(a) the latest version of the register of electors published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act, as the case may be;\n(b) any notice setting out an alteration to that version of the register issued under—\n(i) section 13A(2) of that Act,\n(ii) section 13B(3), (3B) or (3D) of that Act, or\n(iii) section 13BB(4) or (5) of that Act; and\n(c) any record of anonymous entries,\nas the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the poll.\n(2) Each electoral registration officer must, as soon as practicable, supply free of charge to the relevant returning officer as many printed copies of—\n(a) the postal voters list;\n(b) the list of proxies; and\n(c) the proxy postal voters list,\nas the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the poll.\n(3) If, after supplying copies of the register and notices in accordance with paragraph (1), any further notices of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are issued by an electoral registration officer, the electoral registration officer must, as soon as reasonably practicable after issuing the notices, supply the relevant returning officer with as many printed copies as the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the poll.\n(4) The duty under paragraph (1) to supply as many printed copies of the register and notices as the returning officer may reasonably require includes a duty to supply one copy in data form.\n(5) For the purposes of this rule—\n“data” means information which is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose; and\n“data form” means data which is in a form which is capable of being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111014639/schedule/1/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:37:01.721435+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."
}