{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-37.json",
  "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/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Registration districts and authorities",
  "text": "(1) The 1965 Act is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (6).\n(2) For section 5 (registration districts and authorities) there is substituted—\n“Registration districts and local registration authorities\n5 (1) For the purposes of this Act, the area of each local authority shall be a registration district.\n(2) There shall be a local registration authority for each registration district.\n(3) The local registration authority for a registration district shall be the local authority whose area comprises that district.”.\n(3) Section 6 (alteration of registration districts) is repealed.\n(4) In section 7 (senior and district registrars and other staff)—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “each registration district in their area” there is substituted “ their registration district ”;\n(b) in subsection (1)(a), for “any registration district in their area” there is substituted “ their registration district ”;\n(c) in subsection (1)(c), for “any registration district in their area” there is substituted “ their registration district ”;\n(d) in subsection (8), for “any”, where first occurring, there is substituted “ their ”; and\n(e) in subsection (11)(a), the words “or in a scheme under the last foregoing section” and “or of any such scheme” are repealed.\n(5) In section 8 (registration offices)—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “each registration district in their area” there is substituted “ their registration district ”; and\n(b) in subsection (4)—\n(i) for “each registration district in their area” there is substituted “ their registration district ”;\n(ii) for “the office” there is substituted “ those premises ”; and\n(iii) for “the last foregoing subsection” there is substituted “ subsection (3) above ”.\n(6) In section 9(1) (provision of area repositories), for “area” there is substituted “ registration district ”.",
  "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/37",
    "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."
}