# Representation of the People (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990, Regulation 21: Amendment of the Regulations of 1986


(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 67 of the Regulations of 1986 (closing dates for applications), for the words “paragraphs (3) and (4)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (3)”.
(2) For paragraphs (3) and (4) of that regulation there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–
“(3) Paragraph (2) above shall not apply to an application which satisfies the requirements of either paragraphs (2) and (3) or paragraph (4) of regulation 64 above; and such an application shall be disallowed if it is received by the registration officer after noon on the sixth day before the date of the election for which it was made.”.
(3) In paragraph (6) of that regulation–
(a) for the words “this regulation” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 64 and this regulation”;
(b) before the words “general election”, in both places where those words occur, there shall be inserted the word “parliamentary”; and
(c) before the word “by-election” there shall be inserted the word “parliamentary”, and after the word first mentioned there shall be inserted the words “or a local government election”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/629/regulation/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-21
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