{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-amendment-order-2008/article-14",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110802275",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-amendment-order-2008",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Amendment of paragraph 19 of Schedule 4",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 19 of Schedule 4 (opening of covering envelopes) is amended as follows.\n(2) For sub-paragraph (1) substitute–\n“(1) When a postal voters' ballot box is opened, the constituency returning officer shall count and record the number of covering envelopes (including any envelope which is stated to include a postal vote and any envelope described in paragraph 17(2)).\n(1A) He shall set aside for personal identifier verification not less than 20 per cent of the envelopes recorded on that occasion.\n(1B) He shall open separately each covering envelope (including an envelope described in paragraph 17(2)).”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2) for “The procedure in paragraph 20 applies” substitute “The procedure in paragraph 20 or, as the case may be, paragraph 20A applies”.\n(4) After sub-paragraph (4) insert–\n“(4A) Where–\n(a) an envelope contains the postal voting statement of an elector with an anonymous entry, and\n(b) sub-paragraph (4) does not apply,\nthe constituency returning officer shall set aside that envelope and its contents for personal identifier verification in accordance with paragraph 20A.”.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (6) for “sub-paragraph (1)” substitute “sub-paragraph (1B)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 20A is inserted by article 16 of this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110802275/article/14",
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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."
}