{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-scotland-order-1996/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-scotland-order-1996/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/753",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (Scotland) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.\n(2) In this Order—\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“local government area” means the area of a local authority; and\nreferences to European Parliamentary constituencies are references to the European Parliamentary constituencies established by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/548, amended by S.I. 1992/236. The citation of this Order has also been amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/753/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:59.121864+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}