{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-75.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/75",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Sealing up of completed corresponding number lists and security of special lists",
  "text": "(1) As soon as practicable after the issue of each batch of postal ballot papers, the returning officer shall make up into a packet the completed corresponding number lists of those ballot papers which have been issued and shall seal such a packet.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Until the time referred to in regulation 84(8), the returning officer shall take proper precautions for the security of the marked copy of the postal voters list and the proxy postal voters list.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 75(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 29(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 75(2) 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), 38(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 75(3) 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), 38(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 75 heading substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 29(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 75 applied (with modifications) (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 75 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/75",
    "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."
}