The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999

Premises not to be used as committee rooms

73.—(1) If a person at a Scottish parliamentary election–

(a) hires or uses any premises to which this article applies, or any part of them, for a committee room for the purpose of promoting or procuring a particular result at the election; or

(b) lets any premises to which this article applies, or any part of them, knowing that it was intended to use them or that part as a committee room,

he shall be guilty of an illegal hiring.

(2) This article applies to the premises of all schools other than independent schools within the meaning of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980.

(3) For the purposes of this article, the premises of a school shall be taken to include any dwelling house which forms part of the school and is occupied by a person employed for the purposes of the school.