The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024

Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/497)

17.—(1) The Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3(1), in the definition of “digital service” for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(3) In regulation 29ZA—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”, in both places, substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”, and

(b) in paragraphs (2), (4), (5) and (6), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(4) In regulation 29ZAA—

(a) in paragraph (2), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”, in both places, substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”, and

(b) in paragraphs (3), (5), (6), (8), (9) and (10), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(5) In regulation 29ZAB—

(a) in paragraph (2), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”, in both places, substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”, and

(b) in paragraphs (3), (5), (6) and (7), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(6) In regulation 29ZB, in paragraphs (7) and (8), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(7) In regulation 32ZBA(7)(a), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(8) In regulation 32ZBB—

(a) in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), (6) and (7) for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”, and

(b) in paragraph (9), in paragraph (e) of the definition of “matching data”, for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(9) In regulation 32ZBC, in paragraphs (3), (4) and (5), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(10) In regulation 56B—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”, in both places, substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”, and

(b) in paragraphs (2), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities”substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

(11) In regulation 56D(7), for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” substitute “Housing, Communities and Local Government”.

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S.I. 2001/497; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2013/3198, 2015/450, 2015/1966, 2016/997, 2019/1451, 2021/1265, 2023/1147 and 2023/1406 and S.S.I. 2020/113.