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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-returning-officers-charges-revocation-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/761",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Returning Officers’ Charges) (Revocation) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-returning-officers-charges-revocation-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Constitutional Law\nDevolution, Scotland\nRepresentation Of The People\nMade 17th March 2015\nComing into force 30th June 2015\nThe Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 29(3), (3A) and (4C) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, as applied and modified by article 18 of the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The consent of the Treasury is required by section 29(9) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2) as applied and modified by article 18 of S.I. 2010/2999."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c.2; section 29 was amended by the Representation of the People Act 1991 (c.11), section 1; the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2), Schedule 6, paragraph 4; the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22), section 68; the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c.6), section 18, and S.I. 1991/1728; it is also amended by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.41), Schedule 21, paragraph 6(3) and the Electoral Administration Act 2006, Schedule 1, paragraph 107(2), but these amendments are not yet in force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2999; article 18 will be modified by the Scotland Act 2012 (c.11), section 3, and amended by S.I. 2015/683, but these modifications and amendments are not yet in force; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/761/introduction",
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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."
}