{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-amendment-no-2-order-2001/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1748",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-amendment-no-2-order-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Order (Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 to the principal Order shall be amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) In rule 1(1) (timetable), after “shall” insert “, subject to rule 1A below,”.\n(3) In rule 1(2), for “In” substitute–\n“Except in relation to the substitutions made by rule 1A below, in”.\n(4) After rule 1 insert–\n“Timetable - Election to fill vacancy in a constituency seat\n1A In the case of an election under section 9 of the Scotland Act 1998 (constituency vacancies), the proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Table in rule 1(1) above, but subject to the following substitutions–\n(a) for the first entry in the Table substitute–\n“\nPublication of notice of election to fill a constituency vacancy.\nNot earlier than the twenty-eighth day before the date of the poll and not later than the fourteenth day before the date of the poll.\n”; and\n(b) for the second entry in the Table substitute–\n“\nDelivery of constituency nomination papers.\nNot later than 4pm on any day after the date of the publication of the notice of election but not later than the eleventh day before the date of the poll.\n”.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1748/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:49:18.923147+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."
}