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Referendums (Scotland) Act 2020

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Section 5 – Those who are subject to a legal incapacity to vote

22.This section sets out that a person is subject to a legal incapacity to vote in a referendum if they would be legally incapable under any enactment or rule of law of voting in a local government election held in Scotland on that same date.

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