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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-rules-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-rules-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-33.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/457",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-rules-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/33",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Tendered ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) If a person, representing to be–\n(a) a particular elector named on the register and not named in the absent voters list; or\n(b) a particular person named in the list of proxies as proxy for an elector and not entitled to vote by post as proxy,\napplies for a ballot paper after another person has voted in person either as the elector or the elector’s proxy, the applicant shall, on satisfactorily answering the questions permitted by law to be asked at the poll, be entitled, subject to the following provisions of this rule, to mark a ballot paper (in these Rules referred to as a “tendered ballot paper”) in the same manner as any other voter.\n(2) A tendered ballot paper shall–\n(a) be of a colour differing from the other ballot papers;\n(b) instead of being put into the ballot box, be given to the presiding officer and endorsed by the presiding officer with the name of the voter and the voter’s number in the register of electors, and set aside in a separate packet.\n(3) The name of the voter and such number on the register of electors shall be entered on a list (in these Rules referred to as the “tendered votes list”).\n(4) In the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the number to be endorsed or entered together with the voter’s name shall be the number of that elector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/572",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Modification of Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ssi/2005/572",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Modification of Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2779",
      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/457/schedule/2/paragraph/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:33.675727+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."
}