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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-47",
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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/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Other amendments of the 1965 Act",
  "text": "(1) The 1965 Act is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).\n(2) In section 53 (offences), in subsection (1)(a), after “registrar” there is inserted “ or the Registrar General ”.\n(3) After section 54 there is inserted—\n“Form, and manner of attestation, of documents\n54A (1) Regulations prescribing the form of a document may, unless the document requires to be signed, make provision for the document to be electronic rather than paper-based.\n(2) Regulations prescribing the manner in which a document requires to be attested may make different provision for different cases or circumstances.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 wholly in force at 1.1.2007; s. 47 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 63(2); s. 47(1) in force for specified purposes and s. 47(3) in force at 1.10.2006 and s. 47 in force in so far as not already in force at 1.1.2007 by S.S.I. 2006/469, arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1, 2 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/14/section/47",
    "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."
}