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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110717494",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2007",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons entitled to be present at proceedings on issue of postal ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 6A, 6B, 6C, or 6D of the 2000 Political Parties Act, no person may be present at the proceedings on the issue of postal ballot papers other than the constituency returning officer and members of his staff.\n(2) The constituency returning officer shall be the relevant officer for the purposes of section 6E of that Act.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
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      "text": "These sections, and section 6E, were inserted by the 2006 Act, section 29."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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