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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-regional-returning-officers-scotland-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-regional-returning-officers-scotland-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/270",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Regional Returning Officers) (Scotland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-regional-returning-officers-scotland-order-1999",
  "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 the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall be the person who, under section 41 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, is the returning officer at elections of councillors for the local authority for the local government area specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The regions specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order are the regions for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998. Paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 to that Act provides that (subject to any Order in Council under the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56) as that Act is extended by that Schedule) those regions shall be the eight European Parliamentary Constituencies provided for by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1926)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/270/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:04.204610+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."
}