{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-73.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/73",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Refusal to issue postal ballot paper",
  "text": "Where a returning officer is satisfied that two or more entries in the postal voters list, or the proxy postal voters list or in each of those lists relate tothe same elector, he shall not issue more than one ballot paper in respect of that elector at any one election.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 37(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 37(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 73 applied (with modifications) (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 73 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/73",
    "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."
}