{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/4",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Local authorities: disqualifications for nomination, election and holding office",
  "text": "(1) The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 31 (disqualifications for nomination, election and holding office as member of local authority), in subsection (1), after paragraph (f) (inserted by section 13) insert\n“or\n(g) the person is subject to a disqualification order under section 30 of the Elections Act 2022 (disqualification of offenders from holding elective office etc).”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 1.8.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/106, reg. 2(1)(b), sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/4/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:00.522426+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."
}