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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/787",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Closing dates for applications",
  "text": "(1) An application–\n(a) to vote by post or proxy under article 8(1);\n(b) by an absent voter to alter his choice as to the manner of absent voting under article 8(6);\n(c) for the appointment of a proxy under article 10(6); or\n(d) from a proxy to vote by post under article 11(4),\nshall be disregarded for the purposes of any particular election if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the eleventh day before the date of the poll at that election.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, an application–\n(a) to vote by post or proxy under article 9(1);\n(b) by a postal voter for his ballot papers to be sent to a different address or to vote instead by proxy at a particular election under article 9(2);\n(c) for the appointment of a proxy under article 10(7);\n(d) from a proxy to vote by post under article 11(7); or\n(e) from a postal proxy for his ballot papers to be sent to a different address at a particular election under article 11(8),\nshall be disallowed if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the eleventh day before the date of the poll at the election for which it was made.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) above shall not apply to an application which satisfies the requirements of either sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of paragraph 5 above or sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 5 above; and such an application shall be disallowed if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the sixth day before the date of the poll at the election for which it was made.\n(4) The following, namely–\n(a) an application under article 8(5)(a) by an elector to be removed from the record kept under article 8(4);\n(b) an application under article 11(11)(a) by a proxy to be removed from the record kept under article 11(6); and\n(c) a notice under article 10(9) of the cancellation of a proxy’s appointment,\nmay be disregarded for the purposes of any particular election if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the eleventh day before the date of the poll at that election.\n(5) In computing a period of days for the purposes of paragraph 5 above and this paragraph–\n(a) a Saturday or a Sunday;\n(b) Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Easter Monday or Good Friday; or\n(c) a day which is a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971,\nshall be disregarded.",
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