Explanatory note

This Order amends the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999 (“the 1999 Order”).

Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order contains provisions about electors lists and registers, and, in particular at paragraph 2 about the supply of free copies of the register.

Article 3 of this Order ensures that the provisions empowering the supply of copies of the register under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order extend to providing copies of any revised versions of the register and of notices published by registration officers in between the annual revision of the register. This is consequential on the introduction of the rolling register. Article 3 also provides an amended definition of “data” for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order.

Article 4 amends paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Order to provide that applications to be removed from the record of absent voters or to vote by proxy need to be received by the registration officer on the eleventh (working) day before the date of the poll at an election.

Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order was amended by article 17 of the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1399). The 1999 Order is further amended by the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2001, but the amendments made by that Order are not relevant for the purposes of this Order.