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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-pilot-scheme-scotland-order-2017/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (Scotland) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-pilot-scheme-scotland-order-2017",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“2001 Regulations” means the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001;\n“annual canvass” means the annual canvass required by section 9D(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/497, amended by S.I. 2013/3206, 2015/1376, 2016/997 and section 2(2) of the Scottish Elections (Reduction of Voting Age) Act 2015 (asp 7); there are other amendments which are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 2. Section 9D was inserted into the Representation of the People Act 1983 by section 4 of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/605/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:10:54.063078+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."
}