{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-26F",
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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/26F",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26F",
  "heading": "Overseas electors: power to request additional evidence as to applicant’s previous registration in pursuance of a service declaration or overseas elector’s declaration or as a merchant seaman",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) a person makes an application under section 10ZC of the 1983 Act in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration (“the applicant”) in reliance on the previous registration condition,\n(b) the applicant claims that the registration referred to in section 1A(2)(a) of the 1985 Act was—\n(i) in pursuance of a service declaration,\n(ii) on the basis that the applicant was treated as being resident at the relevant address in accordance with section 6 of the 1983 Act (residence: merchant seamen), or\n(iii) in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration made in reliance upon the previous registration condition, where paragraph (i) or (ii) applies to the registration referred to in section 1A(2)(a) of the 1985 Act in respect of that declaration,\n(c) the registration officer has required the applicant to provide additional evidence in accordance with regulation 26D, and\n(d) the registration officer considers that additional evidence is necessary in order to satisfy the registration officer that the applicant was previously entered in an electoral register in respect of the relevant address, including where the applicant is unable to provide the evidence required under regulation 26D(2).\n(2) The registration officer may require that the applicant—\n(a) give the registration officer a copy, or where the registration officer considers it appropriate, the original, of any document which—\n(i) bears the full name of the applicant, as provided in accordance with section 1C(1)(a) of the 1985 Act or regulation 18(3)(a), and\n(ii) confirms that the applicant met the registration status requirement;\n(b) give an attestation of registration status which must—\n(i) confirm that the applicant met the registration status requirement, and\n(ii) give an indication of the dates between which, to the best of the qualifying attestor’s knowledge, the applicant met the requirement.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where the applicant’s registration referred to in section 1A(2)(a) of the 1985 Act was in pursuance of a service declaration by virtue of a service qualification related to another person (“B”), as described in section 14(1)(d) or (e) or (1A) of the 1983 Act.\n(4) In addition to or instead of a requirement under paragraph (2)(a), the registration officer may require the applicant to give the registration officer a copy, or where the registration officer considers it appropriate, the original of any document which bears the full current or former name of B and confirms—\n(a) B’s service qualification under section 14(1) of the 1983 Act;\n(b) that B is or was (as the case may be) the spouse, civil partner, parent or guardian of the applicant.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation, “the registration status requirement”—\n(a) where paragraph (1)(b)(i) applies (including where it applies in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)(iii)), is that the applicant had a service qualification under section 14(1) or (1A) of the 1983 Act;\n(b) where paragraph (1)(b)(ii) applies (including where it applies in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)(iii)), is that the applicant was a merchant seaman within the meaning of section 6 of the 1983 Act.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“qualifying attestor” has the meaning given in regulation 26I(3);\n“relevant address” means the address provided by the applicant in accordance with section 1C(2)(a)(i) of the 1985 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 26C-26J inserted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 10(8) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(d))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/497/regulation/26F",
    "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."
}