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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-order-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-36",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/42",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Spoilt ballot papers",
  "text": "A voter who has inadvertently dealt with a ballot paper in such manner that it cannot be conveniently used as a ballot paper may, on delivering it to the presiding officer and proving to the presiding officer’s satisfaction the fact of the inadvertence, obtain another ballot paper in the place of the ballot paper so delivered (in these rules the ballot paper so delivered is referred to as a “spoilt ballot paper”), and the spoilt ballot paper shall be immediately cancelled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2999",
      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ssi/2007/379",
      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2007"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2009"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/42/schedule/1/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:16:09.054028+00:00"
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  "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."
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