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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-parliamentary-constituencies-england-and-wales-order-2023/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1299",
  "legislation_title": "The Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England and Wales) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-parliamentary-constituencies-england-and-wales-order-2023",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of returning officers for county constituencies: England and Wales",
  "text": "(1) 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), 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.\n(2) 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), 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1887 c. 55. The definition of “county” in section 38 was amended by S.I. 1995/1748."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1299/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:46.895053+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."
}