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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-28.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/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Power of Presiding Officer to schedule extraordinary general elections",
  "text": "(1) The Scotland Act 1998 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 3 (extraordinary general elections)—\n(a) after subsection (1), insert—\n“(1A) But, despite subsection (1), the Presiding Officer may not propose a day for the holding of a poll if an event mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection occurs within the period of 8 weeks ending with the day on which the poll at the next ordinary general election would be held (disregarding section 2(5)).”,\n(b) in subsection (2B), for “one month” substitute “4 weeks”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 28 in force at 1.10.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/106, reg. 2(1)(c), sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/4/section/28",
    "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."
}