{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-60ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-60ZA.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/60ZA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60ZA",
  "heading": "Requirement to notify certain electors and proxies that postal vote entitlement is to end",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in respect of an elector or proxy who remains entitled to vote by post at a parliamentary election by virtue of an entitlement which was granted for the maximum period (“the relevant person”).\n(2) The registration officer must, before the end of the maximum period, send to the relevant person—\n(a) a notice informing the relevant person of the date on which the relevant person’s entitlement to vote by post is to end, and\n(b) information about how to make a fresh application to vote by post (as elector or, as the case may be, as proxy).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 60ZA inserted (31.10.2023) by The Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1147), regs. 1(2), 10(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 60ZA applied (31.10.2023) by The Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1147), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 60ZA applied (16.1.2024) by The Elections Act 2022 (Commencement No. 11, Transitional Provisions and Specfied Day) and Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1405), reg. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/122",
      "affecting_title": "The Absent Voting (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/497/regulation/60ZA",
    "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."
}