{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-64.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/64",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part V",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n...\n“agent” includes the election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent’s place;\n“ballot paper envelope” and “covering envelope” mean the envelopes referred to in regulation 74 below;\n...\n“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;\n“postal voter” means an elector or proxy who is entitled to vote by post;\n“postal voters' ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in regulation 81(1)(a) above;\n“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”, and other references to specified receptacles, means the receptacles referred to in regulation 81(5) below;\n“spoilt postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper referred to in regulation 77(1) below;\n“universal postal service provider” has the meaning given in Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011 to a “universal service provider”; and\n“valid postal voting statement” means a postal voting statement which, in accordance with regulation 85 or 85A, the returning officer is satisfied has been duly completed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 64 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 36(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 64 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 36(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 64 substituted (1.10.2011) by The Postal Services Act 2011 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2085), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 47"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 64 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/305), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 64 modified (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 64 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/64",
    "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."
}