{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-21",
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  "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/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Notional and third party expenditure: Scottish Parliament elections",
  "text": "(1) The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 73 (notional campaign expenditure), in subsection (1A)—\n(a) after “paragraph 3,” insert “5,”,\n(b) after “parliamentary general elections” insert “, general elections to the Scottish Parliament”.\n(3) In section 86 (notional controlled expenditure), in subsection (1A)—\n(a) after “paragraph 3,” insert “5,”,\n(b) after “parliamentary general elections” insert “, general elections to the Scottish Parliament”.\n(4) In section 94 (limits on controlled expenditure by third parties), in subsection (8A)—\n(a) after “paragraph 3,” insert “5,”,\n(b) after “parliamentary general elections” insert “, general elections to the Scottish Parliament”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 21 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/21",
    "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."
}