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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2007/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110717494",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2007",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Registers of electors etc",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 5(5) and section 13B of the 1983 Act (alteration of registers, pending elections), an alteration in a published version of the register of electors under section 13A or 56 of the 1983 Act (alteration of registers and registration appeals) which is to take effect after the fifth day before the date of the poll for an election shall not have effect for the purposes of that election.\n(2) Schedule 1 (which makes provision in connection with electors' registers) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 13A and 13B were added by the 2000 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 6. Section 13B was amended by section 11(2) of the 2006 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 56 is applied to Scotland by section 57 of the 1983 Act. It was amended by the 2006 Act, sections 11 and 12."
    }
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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."
}