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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-70",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2015/9780111029916",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/70",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Retention and public inspection of documents",
  "text": "(1) The CRO shall retain the documents specified in rule 68(1) for a year and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the Court of Session, shall cause them to be destroyed.\n(2) The documents mentioned in paragraph (1) except—\n(a) ballot papers;\n(b) the completed corresponding number lists; and\n(c) certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll,\nshall be open to public inspection.\n(3) Each of the following shall, on request, be supplied with a copy of the marked copies of the polling register, the postal voters list, the list of proxies and the proxy postal voters list—\n(a) a registered party;\n(b) a person who was a candidate at the constituency election to which those documents relate;\n(c) a person who was a candidate (whether an individual candidate or a candidate on a registered party’s list) at the regional election to which those documents relate.\n(4) Schedule 8 makes further provision as to inspection of, and access to, documents retained by the CRO.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2015/9780111029916/schedule/2/paragraph/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:43.999227+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."
}