{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-reform-act-2020/section-26",
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  "legislation": "asp/2020/12",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-reform-act-2020",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Directions to electoral registration officers: Scottish parliamentary elections",
  "text": "After section 5 of the Local Electoral Administration (Scotland) Act 2011 insert—\n“Directions to electoral registration officers: Scottish parliamentary elections\n5A (1) The convener may give directions in writing to electoral registration officers about the exercise of their functions in relation to a particular Scottish parliamentary election.\n(2) But a direction is of no effect if it is inconsistent with any direction given under section 52 of the 1983 Act.\n(3) An electoral registration officer to whom a direction is given must comply with the direction.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/278, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/12/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:46.350039+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."
}