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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provision-order-2007/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/566",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provision) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provision-order-2007",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provision — form and manner of attestation of death registration form",
  "text": "Prior to the commencement of section 23(1A)(b) of the 1965 Act (registration without personal attendance at registration office)—\n(a) manuscript signature is the manner of attestation prescribed; and\n(b) the form in Schedule 10 to the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 is the form prescribed as the death registration form,\nfor the purposes of section 23(1A)(a) of the 1965 Act .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 23(1A)(b) was inserted by section 42(3)(b) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2348. The Form in Schedule 10 was substituted by S.S.I. 2005/595, Schedule 2."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/566/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:09:36.439219+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."
}