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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2010/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2010/schedule-4/paragraph-1.json",
  "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": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“agent” includes an election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent’s place;\n“ballot paper envelope” and “covering envelope” mean the envelopes referred to in paragraph 10;\n“issue” includes the original and any subsequent issue;\n“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;\n“postal voter” means a voter who is entitled to vote by post (and includes a proxy postal voter);\n“postal voters’ ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in paragraph 16(1)(a);\n“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”, “receptacle for postal voting statements”, “receptacle for rejected ballot paper envelopes” and “receptacle for rejected votes” mean, respectively, the receptacles referred to in paragraph 16(5);\n“spoilt ballot paper” means a ballot paper referred to in paragraph 13(1); and\n“valid postal voting statement” means a postal voting statement which, in accordance with paragraph 20 or 21 the CRO is satisfied has been duly completed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 30.12.2010, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2999/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:23.922800+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."
}