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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-scotland-act-2011/schedule/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-scotland-act-2011/schedule/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2011/10",
  "legislation_title": "Local Electoral Administration (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Budget",
  "text": "(1) The Board must, before the start of each financial year, prepare proposals for the Board’s use of resources and expenditure during the year (a “budget”) and, by such date as the Parliamentary corporation determines, send the budget to the Parliamentary corporation for approval.\n(2) The Board may, in the course of a financial year, prepare a revised budget for the remainder of the year and send it to the Parliamentary corporation for approval.\n(3) In preparing a budget or revised budget, the Board must ensure that the resources of the Board will be used economically, efficiently and effectively.\n(4) A budget or revised budget must contain a statement that the Board has complied with the duty under sub-paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. inserted (1.4.2026) by Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025 (asp 4), ss. 69(7), 73(2) (with s. 71); S.S.I. 2025/260, reg. 3, sch. Pt. 2"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/10/schedule/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:05.297086+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."
}