{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-65B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-65B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983",
  "path": "section/65B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65B",
  "heading": "Scottish local government elections: false information in nomination papers etc.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in relation to a local government election in Scotland.\n(2) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if he causes or permits to be included in a document delivered or otherwise furnished to a returning officer for use in connection with the election—\n(a) a statement of the name or home address of a candidate at the election which he knows to be false in any particular; or\n(b) anything which purports to be the signature of an elector who proposes, seconds or assents to the nomination of such a candidate but which he knows—\n(i) was not written by the elector by whom it purports to have been written; or\n(ii) if written by that elector, was not written by him for the purpose of signifying that he was proposing, seconding or, as the case may be, assenting to that candidate's nomination.\n(3) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if he makes in any document in which he gives his consent to his nomination as a candidate at the election—\n(a) a statement of his date of birth; or\n(b) a statement as to his qualification for being elected at the election,\nwhich he knows to be false in any particular.\n(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) above, a statement as to a candidate's qualification is a statement—\n(a) that he is qualified for being elected;\n(b) that he will be qualified for being elected; or\n(c) that to the best of his knowledge and belief he is not disqualified for being elected.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(1) substituted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and 16.2.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8(a), Sch. 1 para. 10; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 65B inserted (S.) (29.1.2007) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 13, 63; S.S.I. 2007/26, art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/65B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+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."
}