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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-15",
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  "legislation": "asp/2006/14",
  "legislation_title": "Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Offences relating to applications for postal and proxy votes",
  "text": "Before section 63 of the 1983 Act (breach of official duty) insert—\n“Scottish local government elections: offences relating to applications for postal and proxy votes\n62B (1) This section applies in relation to a local government election in Scotland.\n(2) A person commits an offence if he—\n(a) engages in any of the acts specified in subsection (3) below at the election; and\n(b) intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote or to make for himself or another a gain of a vote to which he or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.\n(3) The acts referred to in subsection (2)(a) above are—\n(a) applying for a postal or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);\n(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for a postal or proxy vote;\n(c) inducing the registration officer or returning officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to a postal or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the person entitled to the vote;\n(d) causing a communication relating to a postal or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.\n(4) In subsection (2)(b) above, property includes any description of property.\n(5) In subsection (3) above a reference to a postal vote or a postal ballot paper includes a reference to a proxy postal vote or a proxy postal ballot paper (as the case may be).\n(6) A person who commits an offence under subsection (2) above or who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of such an offence is guilty of a corrupt practice.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/14/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:08.752556+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."
}