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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-65",
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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/65",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Declaration of results: regional members",
  "text": "(1) When the regional returning officer has allocated the regional member seats he shall forthwith–\n(a) announce the individual candidates or the candidates on a registered party’s regional list to whom seats have been allocated;\n(b) declare those candidates to have been elected;\n(c) return the names of those persons to the Clerk of the Parliament in accordance with paragraph (2) below;\n(d) give public notice–\n(i) of the name of any individual candidate elected;\n(ii) of the name of any candidate elected who was included on a registered party’s regional list (and the name of the registered party on whose list he was included);\n(iii) (in a contested election) of the total number of votes given for each individual candidate or registered party together with the number of rejected ballot papers under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers; and\n(iv) whether, in the case of a registered party, there are candidates remaining on that party’s regional list who have not been declared to be elected;\n(e) send a copy of that notice to each constituency returning officer for a constituency included in that region.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above the regional returning officer shall return those names required to be returned by–\n(a) completing a certificate in the form T set out in the Appendix;\n(b) delivering it, or causing it to be delivered, to the Clerk of the Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
}