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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-board-elections-scotland-regulations-2009/schedule/paragraph-34",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/352",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-board-elections-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/34",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Attendance at the count",
  "text": "(1) Nobody may attend the count other than—\n(a) the returning officer and the officer’s staff;\n(b) the candidates and their partners; and\n(c) the counting agents,\nbut the returning officer may permit other persons to attend the count if the officer is satisfied that doing so would not impede the efficient counting of the votes.\n(2) The returning officer must give the counting agents such reasonable facilities for overseeing the count, and such information about the count, as the officer can give consistently with the orderly conduct of the proceedings and the performance of the officer’s duties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "Sch. rule 5 renumbered as Sch. rule 5(1)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/58",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/58",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/352/schedule/paragraph/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:59:24.243470+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."
}