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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-regional-returning-officers-and-constituency-returning-officers-order-2025/article-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Regional returning officers",
  "text": "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, is the returning officer for elections of councillors for the local authority specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/287/article/2",
    "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."
}