UK Offence Report

The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2010 No. 58 — creates 2 criminal offences.

2offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
11 February 2010
In force from
15 February 2010
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Elections and representation of the people
Made under
Schedule 1A to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations amend the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (“the principal Regulations”) which set out the arrangements for pilot Health Board elections. Regulation2(2) inserts regulation5A into the principal Regulations, which applies modified provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to Health Board elections. These are section60 (presentation), section61 (voting more than once) and section65 (offences relating to nomination and ballot papers). Regulation2(4) amends rule5 of the Schedule to the principal Regulations to provide that an individual may not vote in more than oneHealth Board area and may not vote more than once in the same Health Board area.

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