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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-24",
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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/4/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Retrieval of cancelled postal ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the returning officer that a cancelled postal ballot paper has been placed—\n(a) in a postal voters’ ballot box;\n(b) in the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes; or\n(c) a postal ballot box,\nthe CRO shall proceed as follows.\n(2) The CRO shall, on at least one occasion on which a postal voters’ ballot box is opened in accordance with paragraph 19, also open any postal ballot box and the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes and—\n(a) retrieve the cancelled ballot paper;\n(b) show the ballot paper number on the cancelled ballot paper to the agents;\n(c) retrieve the postal voting statement that relates to a cancelled ballot paper from the receptacle for postal voting statements (verification procedure);\n(d) attach any cancelled postal ballot paper to the postal voting statement to which it relates;\n(e) place the cancelled documents in a separate packet and deal with that packet in the manner provided for by paragraph 13(7); and\n(f) unless the postal ballot box has been opened for the purposes of the counting of votes under rule 55 of the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules, re-seal the postal ballot box in the presence of the agents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2015/9780111029916/schedule/4/paragraph/24",
    "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."
}