Regulation 47 Retention and disposal of documents: ScotlandI1

Scotland

(1)

This regulation applies to petitions for a constituency in Scotland.

(2)

The petition officer must retain for a year the documents referred to in regulation 44(1) (delivery of documents to the registration officer) and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the House of Commons, the Court of Session or the sheriff, must cause them to be destroyed.

(3)

Regulation 45 is to apply but in the application of that regulation a reference to—

(a)

“registration officer” is to be read as “petition officer”;

(b)

“High Court” is to be read as “Court of Session”; and

(c)

“county court” or any judge of a county court, is to be read as “the sheriff”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 47 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1