- Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (Diwygiedig)
- Gwreiddiol (a wnaed Fel)
The Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025
You are here:
- Offerynnau Statudol yr Alban
- 2025 No. 263
- Whole Instrument
- Blaenorol
- Nesaf
Pa Fersiwn
Dewisiadau Agor
Rhagor o Adnoddau
Status:
Dyma’r fersiwn wreiddiol (fel y’i gwnaed yn wreiddiol). Dim ond ar ei ffurf wreiddiol y mae’r eitem hon o ddeddfwriaeth ar gael ar hyn o bryd.
Scottish Statutory Instruments
2025 No. 263
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
The Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025
Made
18th September 2025
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
22nd September 2025
Coming into force
1st December 2025
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(3) and 61(2) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1 December 2025.
Amendment of the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007
2. After regulation 15C (consequence of failure to provide required information) of the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007(2) insert—
Disapplication of fresh signatures requirement for signatures due before May 2026
15D. Where a registration officer may be required to send a person a notice under regulation 15A(1) and (2) (requirement to provide fresh signatures) before 7 May 2026—
(a)that requirement does not apply,
(b)the absent voter does not, for that reason, cease to be entitled to vote by post or by proxy for a failure to provide a fresh signature,
(c)the registration officer does not, for that reason, require to remove that person’s entry from the absent voting records due to failure to provide a fresh signature, and
(d)the registration officer must send a notice under regulation 15A(1) and (2) to that person by 31 January 2027.”.
JAMIE HEPBURN
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
18th September 2025
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”). The 2007 Regulations apply where a postal or proxy vote is being or has been sought in respect solely of local government elections in Scotland or of a particular local government election in Scotland.
Regulation 2 inserts a new regulation 15D into the 2007 Regulations. This temporarily disapplies any requirement under regulation 15A(1) and (2) of the 2007 Regulations for registration officers to send a notice requesting a fresh signature from any person entitled to vote by post or proxy and whose signature on record is more than 5 years old. This is temporarily disapplied where the notice under regulation 15A(1) and (2) would otherwise be sent by 7 May 2026. The registration officer is instead to send the notice by 31 January 2027.
(1)
2006 asp 14 (“the 2006 Act”). See section 36(2) of the 2006 Act, read with section 202 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), for the meaning of “prescribed” in relation to section 22(3), to mean prescribed by regulations.
(2)
S.S.I. 2007/170 as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2009/35 and S.S.I. 2011/399.
Options/Cymorth
Print Options
Official printed copies
PrintThe Whole Instrument
Mae deddfwriaeth ar gael mewn fersiynau gwahanol:
Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (diwygiedig):Y fersiwn ddiweddaraf sydd ar gael o’r ddeddfwriaeth yn cynnwys newidiadau a wnaed gan ddeddfwriaeth ddilynol ac wedi eu gweithredu gan ein tîm golygyddol. Gellir gweld y newidiadau nad ydym wedi eu gweithredu i’r testun eto yn yr ardal ‘Newidiadau i Ddeddfwriaeth’.
Gwreiddiol (Fel y’i Deddfwyd neu y’i Gwnaed): Mae'r wreiddiol fersiwn y ddeddfwriaeth fel ag yr oedd pan gafodd ei deddfu neu eu gwneud. Ni wnaed unrhyw newidiadau i’r testun.
Dewisiadau Agor
Dewisiadau gwahanol i agor deddfwriaeth er mwyn gweld rhagor o gynnwys ar y sgrin ar yr un pryd
Policy Note
Policy Note sets out a brief statement of the purpose of a Scottish Statutory Instrument and provides information about its policy objective and policy implications. They aim to make the Scottish Statutory Instrument accessible to readers who are not legally qualified and accompany any Scottish Statutory Instrument or Draft Scottish Statutory Instrument laid before the Scottish Parliament from July 2012 onwards. Prior to this date these type of notes existed as ‘Executive Notes’ and accompanied Scottish Statutory Instruments from July 2005 until July 2012.
Rhagor o Adnoddau
Gallwch wneud defnydd o ddogfennau atodol hanfodol a gwybodaeth ar gyfer yr eitem ddeddfwriaeth o’r tab hwn. Yn ddibynnol ar yr eitem ddeddfwriaeth sydd i’w gweld, gallai hyn gynnwys:
- y PDF print gwreiddiol y fel deddfwyd fersiwn a ddefnyddiwyd am y copi print
- rhestr o newidiadau a wnaed gan a/neu yn effeithio ar yr eitem hon o ddeddfwriaeth
- manylion rhoi grym a newid cyffredinol
- pob fformat o’r holl ddogfennau cysylltiedig
- slipiau cywiro
- dolenni i ddeddfwriaeth gysylltiedig ac adnoddau gwybodaeth eraill
Rhagor o Adnoddau
Defnyddiwch y ddewislen hon i agor dogfennau hanfodol sy’n cyd-fynd â’r ddeddfwriaeth a gwybodaeth am yr eitem hon o ddeddfwriaeth. Gan ddibynnu ar yr eitem o ddeddfwriaeth sy’n cael ei gweld gall hyn gynnwys:
- y PDF print gwreiddiol y fel gwnaed fersiwn a ddefnyddiwyd am y copi print
- slipiau cywiro
liciwch ‘Gweld Mwy’ neu ddewis ‘Rhagor o Adnoddau’ am wybodaeth ychwanegol gan gynnwys
- rhestr o newidiadau a wnaed gan a/neu yn effeithio ar yr eitem hon o ddeddfwriaeth
- manylion rhoi grym a newid cyffredinol
- pob fformat o’r holl ddogfennau cysylltiedig
- dolenni i ddeddfwriaeth gysylltiedig ac adnoddau gwybodaeth eraill
Mae’r holl gynnwys ar gael dan Drwydded Llywodraeth Agored v3.0 ac eithrio ble nodir yn wahanol. Yn ychwanegol mae’r safle hwn â chynnwys sy’n deillio o EUR-Lex, a ailddefnyddiwyd dan delerau Penderfyniad y Comisiwn 2011/833/EU ar ailddefnyddio dogfennau o sefydliadau’r UE. Am ragor o wybodaeth gweler ddatganiad cyhoeddus Swyddfa Gyhoeddiadau’r UE ar ailddefnyddio.