Article 3 Designation of returning officers for county constituencies: England and Wales

In the case of a county constituency listed in the second column of the Table in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (being a constituency in England which is not coterminous with or wholly contained in a county, as defined by section 38 of the Sheriffs Act 1887^f1), the returning officer for a parliamentary election is the sheriff of the county listed in the third column of that Table opposite to the name of the constituency.

In the case of a county constituency listed in the first column of the Table in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (being a constituency in Wales which is not coterminous with or wholly contained in a preserved county, as defined by section 64(1) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994^f2), the returning officer for a parliamentary election is the sheriff of the county listed in the second column of that Table opposite to the name of the constituency.