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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2010/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2999",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2010",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Registers of electors etc",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 4(5) and section 13B of the 1983 Act (alteration of registers: pending elections), an alteration in a published version of the register of electors under section 13A or 56 of the 1983 Act (alteration of registers and registration appeals) which is to take effect after the fifth day before the date of the poll for an election shall not have effect for the purposes of that election.\n(2) Schedule 1 (which makes provision in connection with electors’ registers) has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 30.12.2010, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 13B was substituted by the 2000 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 6 and amended by the 2006 Act, section 11(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 13A was substituted by the 2000 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 6. Section 56 is applied to Scotland, with modifications, by the 1983 Act, section 57. It was amended by the 2006 Act, sections 11 and 12."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2999/article/3",
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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."
}