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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2025/article-3",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063415",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2025",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000",
  "text": "After section 145(3) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (duties of the Commission with respect to compliance with controls imposed by the Act etc.) insert—\n“(3A) In relation to a Scottish parliamentary general election or an election held under section 9 of the Scotland Act 1998 (constituency vacancies), the reference in subsection (1)(b) to any enactment includes a reference to any enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 41. The Act was relevantly amended by sections 1(3), 39 and schedule 7 of the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009, section 38(2), (3) and (4) of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111063415/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:32.798837+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."
}