Explanatory Notes

Referendums (Scotland) Act 2020

2020 asp 2

29 January 2020

Commentary

Franchise

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.