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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2779",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002",
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  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Closing dates for applications",
  "text": "(1) An application–\n(a) to vote by post or proxy under article 9(1) or (2);\n(b) to vote by post or proxy under article 10(1);\n(c) for the appointment of a proxy under article 11(6);\n(d) for the appointment of a proxy under article 11(7); or\n(e) from a proxy to vote by post under article 12(4),\nshall be disregarded for the purposes of any particular election if it is received by the registration officer after 5.00 pm on the sixth day before the date of the poll at that election.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, an application–\n(a) by an absent voter to alter his choice as to the manner of absent voting under article 9(6);\n(b) from a proxy to vote by post under article 12(4);\n(c) 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 10(2);\n(d) from a postal proxy for his ballot papers to be sent to a different address at a particular election under article 12(6),\nshall be refused 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) The following, namely–\n(a) an application under article 9(5)(a) by an elector to be removed from the record kept under article 9(4);\n(b) an application under article 12(8)(a) by a proxy to be removed from the record kept under article 12(5); and\n(c) a notice under article 11(9) of the cancellation of a proxy’s appointment,\nshall be disregarded for the purposes of a 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(4) In computing a period of days for the purposes of 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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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2779/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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