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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-rules-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-17",
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  "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/3/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph (3) of rule 37 before the words “counting of votes” in the first place where they occur, there shall be inserted “proceedings under rule 38(1) below (as so substituted) or the” and before “the efficient” there shall be inserted “the efficient separating of the ballot papers or, as the case may be,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2002/522",
      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Rules 2002"
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      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Rules 2002"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/457/schedule/3/paragraph/17",
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  "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."
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