{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-independence-referendum-act-2013/schedule-7/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2013/14",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-independence-referendum-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person (“A”) commits an offence if A—\n(a) engages in an act specified in sub-paragraph (2) in connection with the referendum, and\n(b) intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote in the referendum or to make for A or another a gain of a vote in the referendum to which A or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.\n(2) These are the acts—\n(a) applying for a postal or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person),\n(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for a postal or proxy vote or providing false information in, or in connection with, such an application,\n(c) inducing the registration officer or counting officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to a postal or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the person entitled to the vote,\n(d) causing a communication relating to a postal or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(b), property includes any description of property.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2), a reference to a postal vote or a postal ballot paper includes a reference to a proxy postal vote or proxy postal ballot paper (as the case may be).\n(5) A person commits a corrupt practice if the person commits an offence under sub-paragraph (1) or aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of that offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2013/14/schedule/7/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:20.420711+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."
}