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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/787",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Sealing up of special lists and counterfoils",
  "text": "(1) The constituency returning officer, as soon as practicable after the completion of the issue of the postal ballot papers, and in the presence of the agents, shall make up in separate packets–\n(a) the marked copies of the absent voters list and of the list of postal proxies; and\n(b) the counterfoils of those ballot papers which were issued,\nand shall seal such packets.\n(2) The sealed packet containing the marked copies of the absent voters list and of the list of postal proxies may be opened by the constituency returning officer for the purposes of a subsequent issue, and on completion of that issue the copies shall be again made up and sealed in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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