Article 2 Regional returning officers

For the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998, the person designated as the regional returning officer for a region specified in column 1 of schedule 1(regional returning officers for the Scottish Parliament regions) of this Order is the person who, under section 41(1) (returning officers: local elections in Scotland) of the Representation of the People Act 1983^f1, is the returning officer for elections of councillors for the local authority specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that schedule.