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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/section-45.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/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Scottish Ministers’ power to make provision about elections under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004",
  "text": "(1) The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 3 (power to make further provision about local government elections), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) Provision made by such an order by virtue of subsection (1)(a) may include provision which—\n(a) refers to a document of a particular description as is published from time to time by such person as the order may specify, and\n(b) gives effect to such a document which meets the conditions or criteria (if any) as the order may specify.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 45 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 45 in force at 14.4.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/106, reg. 2(1)(a), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/4/section/45",
    "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."
}