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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-amendment-order-2001/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1399",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Article 2 (Interpretation)",
  "text": "In article 2(1)–\n(a) after the reference to “the 1998 Act” insert–\n““the 2000 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 2000;\n“the 2000 Political Parties Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;\n“the 2001 Regulations” means the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001;”;\n(b) in the definition of “nominating officer” for “the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998” substitute “Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000”, and for “paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 1 to” substitute “section 24(3) of”;\n(c) in each of the definitions of “registered emblem” and “registered party” for “the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998” substitute “Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000”;\n(d) in the definition of “service voter”, the reference to section 15 of the 1983 Act is a reference to that section as amended by the 2000 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/497."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 15 was amended by the 2000 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 8, and by Schedule 7."
    }
  ],
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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."
}