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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-9",
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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/4/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Refusal to issue postal ballot paper",
  "text": "Where a constituency returning officer is satisfied that two or more entries in either the absent voters list, or the list of postal proxies, or in each of those lists relate to the same elector he shall not issue more than one constituency ballot paper or, as the case may be, more than one regional ballot paper in respect of the same elector in respect of the same election.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2779/schedule/4/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:32.730428+00:00"
  },
  "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."
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