{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-amendment-order-2007/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-amendment-order-2007/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2007/379",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-amendment-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 to allow the Electoral Commission to require the production of copies of information stored in the electronic counting system as part of a review conducted at the request of the Scottish Ministers.\nRules 56 to 59 of Schedule 1 to the Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 provide that on the completion of counting at a contested election the ballot papers and various other documents and records shall be sealed up and delivered for safe-keeping to the proper officer of the council for which the election was held. Those rules also prescribe circumstances in which the documents and records can be scrutinised, and the parameters of such scrutiny.\nThis Order enables scrutiny of the electronic record by the Electoral Commission, where they have been asked by the Scottish Ministers to undertake a review of local government elections in Scotland and, as part of that review, to examine the electronic copies of information made pursuant to Rule 56(1). Safeguards to protect the secrecy of the vote are provided. These include the omission of any right of access to the sealed packets of the completed corresponding number lists, which link the numbers or barcodes on the ballot papers with the identifying numbers for electors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/379/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:11:56.104722+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."
}