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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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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/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Functions at combined polls",
  "text": "(1) The functions referred to in paragraph 1 are the functions conferred or imposed—\n(a) at a Scottish parliamentary election by those rules in the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules which are specified in sub-paragraph (2); and\n(b) at a local government election, by those rules in the rules made under sections 3 and 16 of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 which correspond to the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2),\nand, where the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers at two or more elections are taken together under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4, the functions conferred or imposed by that Schedule and by Part 5 of the 2001 Regulations.\n(2) The rules referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—\n(a) rule 33(2)(a) (notice of situation of polling stations);\n(b) where the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers at two or more elections are taken together under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4, rule 34 (postal ballot papers);\n(c) rule 35 (provision of polling stations);\n(d) rule 36(1) and (2) (appointment of presiding officers and clerks) to the extent that that rule concerns the appointment of presiding officers and clerks to assist them;\n(e) rule 38 (equipment of polling stations);\n(f) rule 40(1) (notification of requirement of secrecy at polling station);\n(g) rule 41(4) (signature of certificate as to employment);\n(h) rule 42(2)(b) (authorisation to order removal from polling station); and\n(i) in rule 55 paragraph (1) (the count) (as substituted by paragraph 18 of this Schedule) and paragraph (5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 asp 9; section 3 was amended by the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006, (asp 14), section 34(6); section 16 was amended by the Scottish Local Government (Elections) Act 2009 (asp 10), section 2. The current rules are the Scottish Local Government Elections Rules 2011, comprising Schedule 1 to the Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/399, amended by S.S.I. 2012/60 and S.S.I. 2012/342)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Part 5 has been amended by S.I. 2002/1872, S.I. 2006/834, S.I. 2007/925, S.I. 2008/305 and S.I. 2010/930."
    }
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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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