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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Members' Interests) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Election expenses",
  "text": "(1) Where contributions towards the election expenses of a member in relation to the election at which he was returned as a member included a donation or donations by a person, the aggregate of which exceeded 25% of those election expenses.\n(2) For this purpose–\n(a) the election expenses of a member are the election expenses within the meaning of article 83 of the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999 in relation to that member’s candidature where that member stood as a candidate for return as a constituency member or as an individual candidate for return as a regional member;\n(b) “a person” means a single individual or legal person and includes a group of companies; and\n(c) “group of companies” has the same meaning as “group” in section 262(1) of the 1985 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/787."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1350/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:25.187868+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."
}