The Act
3.The Act covers a range of issues, with supporting detail set out in schedules, as follows:
	Franchise (sections 2 and 3), being the rules about who is, and is not, entitled to vote in an independence referendum;
	The creation and maintenance of the Register of Young Voters (sections 4 to 9 and schedules 1 and 2), which is required in consequence of the extension of the franchise to persons below the age at which they can register as local government electors; and
	Registration officers’ expenses (section 10), which insofar as they relate to the functions under the Act will be met by the Scottish Ministers.