{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-40.json",
  "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/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Qualifying addresses which are not included in the register",
  "text": "(1) Section 9(2)(b) of the 1983 Act (which requires each register of parliamentary or local government electors to contain the qualifying addresses of the persons registered in it) does not apply to an address–\n(a) to which paragraph (2) or (3) below applies, or\n(b) which is specified in an overseas elector’s declaration in accordance with section 1C(2)(a)(i), (3)(a)(i) or (4) of the 1985 Act.\n(2) This paragraph applies to an address where it appears to the registration officer that–\n(a) a service voter in his service declaration, or\n(b) a person who has made a declaration of local connection,\nhas given that address in such a declaration as an address–\n(i) at which he has resided, but\n(ii) which is not an address at which he is or would be residing but for the circumstances entitling him to make such a declaration.\n(3) This paragraph applies to an address given in a declaration of local connection in accordance with section 7B(4)(b) of the 1983 Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 40(1)(b) substituted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 10(18) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(d))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in force at 16.2.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 9 was substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 2 was substituted by Schedule 2 to the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 7B was inserted by section 6 of the 2000 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/497/regulation/40",
    "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."
}