{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-22",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/497",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Notification about registration as overseas elector",
  "text": "(1) Where the registration officer is satisfied that the declarant qualifies as an overseas elector under the provisions of section 1A of the 1985 Act, he shall so notify the declarant.\n(2) Where the registration officer rejects an application for registration in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration because–\n(a) in his opinion the declarant does not qualify as an overseas elector under section 1A of the 1985 Act, or\n(b) the declaration does not satisfy the requirements of section 1C of the 1985 Act or regulation 18, ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nthe registration officer must notify the declarant in writing and set out the officer’s reasons for rejecting the application for registration.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(1) substituted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 9(5)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(2)(a) substituted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 9(5)(b)(i) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(2)(b) substituted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 9(5)(b)(ii) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 22(2)(c) and word omitted (16.1.2024) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 9(5)(b)(iii) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(2) substituted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 9(5)(b)(iv) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 22(3) revoked (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 16.2.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/497/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:49.998694+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."
}