{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-37.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/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Election agent and sub-agent in Scottish Parliament elections: public notice of home address",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/425) is modified as follows.\n(2) In article 32—\n(a) in paragraph (8) after second “address” insert “, unless a request is made by the election agent under paragraph (9)”,\n(b) after paragraph (8) insert—\n“(9) A declaration under article 32(1) may include a request by the election agent that any public notice of their address is to a correspondence address rather than their home address.\n(10) A request under paragraph (9) must be granted by the returning officer where an alternative correspondence address has been provided.”.\n(3) In article 33—\n(a) in paragraph (5) after “declared” insert “, unless a request is made by the sub-agent under paragraph (5A)”,\n(b) after paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) A declaration under article 33(5) may include a request by the sub-agent that any public notice of their address is to a correspondence address rather than their home address.\n(5B) A request under paragraph (5A) must be granted by the returning officer where an alternative correspondence address has been provided.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 37 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/37",
    "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."
}