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The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015
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2016-07-27
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
DEVOLUTION, SCOTLAND
Articles 3 and 4 of this Order modify Schedules 4 and 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).Schedule 5 to that Act defines reserved matters (matters which are outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament) for the purposes of that Act. Article 4 of the Order provides exceptions to the reservation of elections under Section B3 of Schedule 5 so that the reduction of the minimum voting age to 16 at elections to the Scottish Parliament and Scottish local government elections is not a reserved matter, and nor is the registration of electors, in order to give effect to provision reducing the minimum voting age. The use of the Individual Electoral Registration Digital Service to make an application for registration, or to verify information contained in an application, continues to be a reserved matter.
The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015
Order
Scotland Act 2016
s. 10(7)
s. 72(4)(a)
reg. 2(1)(h)
The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015
Citation and commencement2
This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.