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One of the key themes in the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 and the process of developing the orders to underpin the election has been the concern that there is a need for people to have confidence in the new processes and the new electronic counting system.
Those 4,000 cases are likely to show a similar breakdown.To Bill Aitken, I say that although I am new to my portfolio, I know the difference between Glasgow district court and the other district courts.
The policy and legislation that we have inherited provide for those new checks to be self-financing, with those requesting the check paying a fee to cover the cost of producing it.