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DUNFERMLINE DELIVERS BID

BALLOT TIMETABLE 18 JUNE 2014

The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Regulations 2007

ITEM B-n PROCEDURE TIME DATE COMMENTS

1 B-154 Last day for notice of intention toput BID proposals to ballot.

Regulation 4At least 154 days before ballot day.

15th January 2014

2 B-120 BID review. BID Project should be reviewed and

agreement reached as to whether apositive vote is achievable or not. If apositive vote is not achievable thenthe BID should not go to ballot.

18th February 2014

3 B-98 Last day for the submission of theBID proposal to the Council andScottish Ministers.

Regulation 5(2)(a)(i)At least 98 days* before the day ofthe ballot in accordance withregulation 4.

*This would give FC at least 28 daysto consider proposals before decidingwhether or not to exercise veto.

12th March 2014

4 B-70 Local Authority to confirm that it isor is not vetoing the BID proposals

Regulation 14(1)

For the purposes of section 42(2) of the

2006 Act, the prescribed period is

70 days prior to the day of the ballot

9th April 2014


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5 B-56 98 days after item 1 the BIDProposer requests local authorityto instruct ballot holder to holdballot.

Regulation 5(2)(a)(ii) and (b)The request to hold a ballot should beat least 56 days* before the ballotdate.

*To allow time to put in place ballotarrangements, before issuing ballotpapers (at least 42 days beforeballot), it is recommended that therequest to hold a ballot should bemade at least 56 days before the

ballot date.

23rd April 2014

6 B-56-B-42

The Local Authority instructs theballot holder to hold BID Ballot.

Ballot holder puts in placearrangements to hold BID ballot.

Regulation 6

Regulation 8

23rd April 2014

7 B-42 Issue of ballot papers.

Spoilt ballot papers.

Publication of notice of ballot (byballot holder).

Schedule 2, para. 3

42 days before ballot date.

Schedule 2, para. 11Spoilt ballot papers may be replacedany time from the issue of ballotpapers.

Schedule 2, paras. 2(c) and 3 - atleast 42 days before the day of the

ballot but no more than 90 daysbefore the date of the ballot.

7th May 2014

Between:Friday 20th March 2014;

andThursday 7th May 2014

8 B-42 Last day for postponing the day ofthe ballot by up to 15 days.

Schedule 2, para. 2(2) - No later than42 days before the day of the ballot,the ballot holder may postpone theday of the ballot by up to 15 working

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9 B-10 Last day for the appointment of aproxy.

Schedule 2, para. 5(5)An application to appoint a proxy shallbe refused for the purposes of aparticular ballot if the ballot holderreceives it after 5 p.m. on the tenthday before the day of the ballot.

8th June 2014

10 B-7workingdays

First day for request for issue ofreplacement of LOST ballot paper.

Schedule 2, para. 12Where a voter has not received theirballot paper by the seventh workingday before the day of the ballot, thatvoter may apply (whether or not inperson) to the ballot holder for areplacement ballot paper.

9th June 2014

11 B-5 LAST day for cancellation of Proxy. Schedule 2, para. 5 (10)A notice under sub-paragraph (9) by aperson entitled to vote cancelling aproxys appointment shall bedisregarded for the purposes of a

ballot if the ballot holder receives itafter 5 p.m. on the fifth day before thedate of the poll at that election.

13th June 2014

12 B BALLOT DAY. Schedule 2, para. 2Not earlier than 42 days, and no laterthan 90 days, from the date on whichthe ballot holder published the noticerequired by paragraph 3(a) (see Item

7).

18th June 2014

13 B+1 The Count. Schedule 2, paras. 14 16As soon as practicable after the dayof the ballot, the ballot holder shallmake arrangements for counting thevotes cast on such of the ballotpapers as have been duly returned (inaccordance with paragraph 13) and

record the number counted.

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B+1

B+8

Declaration of the result. Schedule 2, para. 17The ballot holder, having made

the certification under sub-paragraph (1), shall:

forthwith make a declaration ofthe matters so certified; and

give public notice of the mattersso certified as soon aspracticable and within 7 days after

the counting of the votes.

By:

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