{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-1999/article-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-1999/article-66.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/787",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-1999",
  "path": "article/66",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "No hiring of vehicles to convey voters",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not let, lend, or employ any public vehicle for the purpose of the conveyance of electors or their proxies to or from the poll at a Scottish parliamentary election, and if he does so knowing that the public vehicle is intended to be used for that purpose he shall be guilty of an illegal hiring.\n(2) A person shall not hire, borrow or use for the purpose of the conveyance of electors or their proxies to or from the poll at a Scottish parliamentary election any public vehicle the owner of which he knows to be prohibited by paragraph (1) above from letting, lending or employing for that purpose, and if he does so he shall be guilty of an illegal hiring.\n(3) In this article “public vehicle” means any public stage or hackney carriage or any carriage kept or used for the purpose of letting out for hiring.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1399",
      "affecting_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/787/article/66",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:55:32.335431+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."
}