Incapacity to hold public or judicial office: Scotland
78.—(1) In section 173A of the 1983 Act(1) (incapacity where a person has been convicted of a corrupt practice), the reference in subsection (1) to a person convicted of a corrupt practice includes a reference to a person convicted of a corrupt practice under—
(a)a provision of the 1983 Act applied by paragraph 1 of Schedule 9, or
(b)a provision of this Order.
(2) In the application of section 173A of the 1983 Act by virtue of paragraph (1)(b)—
(a)the reference in subsection (1) to section 174 of the 1983 Act includes a reference to that section as applied by paragraph 1 of Schedule 9;
(b)the reference in subsection (2)(a) to section 173 of the 1983 Act is a reference to that section as it has effect by virtue of article 77;
(c)the reference in subsection (2)(b) to section 168 of the 1983 Act includes a reference to that section as applied by paragraph 1 of Schedule 9.
Section 173A was substituted by section 136 of the 2000 Act and amended by section 74(1) of, and paragraphs 104 and 123 of Schedule 1 to, the Electoral Administration Act 2006, by section 34(3) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 and by S.I. 2007/931.