{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/561",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these regulations–\n“the 1985 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n“the 2000 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 2000;\n“absent voters list” means the list kept under paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act;\n“ballot paper envelope” and “covering envelope” mean the envelopes referred to in regulation 11;\n“list of postal proxies” means the list kept under paragraph 7(8) of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act;\n“local authority” means a council constituted by section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“local government area” means the area of a local authority;\n“postal ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in regulation 18(1)(b);\n“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;\n“postal voter” means an elector or proxy who is entitled to vote by post;\n“postal voters' ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in regulation 18(1)(a);\n“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”, and other references to specified receptacles, means the receptacles referred to in regulation 18;\n“spoilt postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper referred to in regulation 14;\n“universal postal service provider” has the meaning given in the Postal Services Act 2000 to a “universal service provider”; and\n“valid declaration of identity” means a declaration of identity in relation to which the returning officer is satisfied as mentioned in regulation 22.\n(2) A reference in these regulations to a numbered rule shall be construed as a reference to the rule of that number in the Scottish Local Government Elections Rules 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2000 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2002/ 457."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/561/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:46.110887+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."
}