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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-scotland-act-2011/section-18",
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  "legislation": "asp/2011/10",
  "legislation_title": "Local Electoral Administration (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Consequential amendments",
  "text": "The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 is amended as follows—\n(a) in section 7 (restrictions on investigations), after subsection (6C) insert—\n“(6D) The Ombudsman must not investigate action taken by or on behalf of the Electoral Commission unless the action taken concerned local government elections in Scotland.”,\n(b) in Part 2 of schedule 2 (listed authorities), after paragraph 91B insert—\n“\n91BA The Electoral Commission.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 29.6.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/277, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/10/section/18",
    "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."
}