{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-regional-returning-officers-and-constituency-returning-officers-order-2025/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/287",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament Elections (Regional Returning Officers and Constituency Returning Officers) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-regional-returning-officers-and-constituency-returning-officers-order-2025",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Scottish Parliament Elections (Regional Returning Officers and Constituency Returning Officers) Order 2025 and, subject to paragraph (2), comes into force on 7 November 2025.\n(2) This Order has no effect for the purposes of any election for which the date of poll is on or before 6 May 2026.\n(3) In this Order “local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39. Section 2 was amended by section 120 and paragraph 232(1) of schedule 22 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/287/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:56.930499+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."
}