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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-65",
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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/65",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Party candidate",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies if—\n(a) at a contested election proof is given to the returning officer’s satisfaction before the result of the election is declared that one of the persons named or to be named as a candidate in the ballot paper has died; and\n(b) that person is standing in the name of a registered political party.\n(2) The returning officer must—\n(a) countermand notice of the poll; or\n(b) if polling has begun, direct that the poll be abandoned.\n(3) The proceedings with reference to the election must be commenced afresh subject to the following provisions of this rule.\n(4) The new notice of election must be published on the first working day after the end of the period of seven days starting on the day the proof is given to the returning officer.\n(5) No fresh nomination is necessary in the case of a person shown in the notice of poll previously published pursuant to rule 20.\n(6) No other nomination may be made except for a person standing in the name of the same registered political party in whose name the deceased candidate was standing.\n(7) The last day on which a nomination mentioned in paragraph (6) may be delivered is the seventh working day after the day on which the notice is published.\n(8) The last day on which a notice of withdrawal of candidature by a person who stands nominated by virtue of paragraph (5) or in pursuance of paragraph (6) may be delivered is the seventh working day after the day on which the notice is published.\n(9) Subject to paragraph (10), the poll must be held on a day in the period (“the first period”) which starts 21 working days after the day on which the notice is published and ends 28 working days after that day.\n(10) If any of the days within the first period is a day in the period which starts with 22nd December and ends with 3rd January following, the day of the poll may be held in the period which starts 25 working days after the day on which the new notice is published and ends 32 working days after that day.\n(11) For the purposes of this rule—\n(a) a person stands in the name of a registered political party if that person’s nomination paper contains a description which is authorised as mentioned in rule 4(5) or (7).\n(b) a working day is a day which is not a day specified in rule 2(1)(a) to (d).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111014639/schedule/1/paragraph/65",
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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."
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