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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2779",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Timetable",
  "text": "(1) The proceedings at a Scottish Parliamentary election shall, subject to rule 2 below, be conducted in accordance with the following Table–\nProceeding\nTime\nPublication of notice of election.\nNot earlier than the twenty-eighth day before the date of the poll and not later than the twenty-first day before the date of the poll.\nDelivery of nomination papers.\nNot later than 4.00 pm on any day after the date of the publication of the notice of election but not later than the sixteenth day before the date of the poll.\nThe making of objections to nomination papers.\nDuring the hours allowed for delivery of nomination papers on the last day for their delivery and the hour following, but–\n(a) no objection may be made in the afternoon of that last day except to a nomination paper delivered within 24 hours of the last time for its delivery, and in the case of a nomination paper so delivered no objection may be so made to the sufficiency or nature of the particulars of a candidate unless made at or immediately after the time of the delivery of the nomination paper; and\n(b) the foregoing provisions do not apply to objections made in pursuance of rule 21 or 22 below.\nDelivery of notice of withdrawal of candidature.\nWithin the time for the delivery of nomination papers at the election.\nPublication of statement of persons nominated.\nAt the close of the time for making objections to nomination papers or as soon afterwards as any objections are disposed of.\nPolling\nBetween the hours of 7.00am and 10.00pm on the date of the poll.\n(2) Except in relation to the substitutions made by rule 2 below, in the Table in paragraph (1) above the reference to “nomination papers” includes constituency nomination papers, individual nomination papers and regional lists.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2114",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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