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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110717494",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2007",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Challenge of voter",
  "text": "A person shall not be prevented from voting by reason only that–\n(a) a candidate or the election or polling agent of a candidate or of a registered party standing nominated declares that he has reasonable cause to believe that the person has committed an offence of personation; or\n(b) the person is arrested on the grounds that he is suspected of committing or about to commit such an offence.",
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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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