{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2007/article-68",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/937",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2007",
  "path": "article/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Officials not to act for candidates",
  "text": "(1) If–\n(a) any constituency returning officer or regional returning officer;\n(b) any officer, clerk or member of staff of any such officer, appointed under the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules; or\n(c) any partner or clerk of any such person,\nacts as an agent for a candidate or a registered party in the conduct or management of the election, he shall be guilty of an offence, but nothing in this article prevents a candidate from acting as his own election agent or a candidate on a registered party’s regional list from acting as election agent for that registered party in relation to that list.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this article shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/937/article/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:54.227287+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."
}