{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1094",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Regional returning officers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the 1983 Act as applied by article 18 of the 1999 Order–\n(a) the services of a regional returning officer in conducting the general election and discharging his duties;\n(b) the expenses of a regional returning officer in respect of the payment of persons employed in connection with the calculation of regional figures for the purposes of section 7 of the Scotland Act 1998 and the allocation of seats to registered political parties and individual candidates under section 7 of that Act;\n(c) the travelling and overnight subsistence expenses of–\n(i) the regional returning officer;\n(ii) any person placed at the regional returning officer’s disposal under article 15(2) of the 1999 Order;\n(iii) any clerical or other assistants employed by the regional returning officer;\n(d) the expenses of a regional returning officer in printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;\n(e) the expenses of a regional returning officer in printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate publishing notices and other documents required by the 1999 Order;\n(f) the expenses of a regional returning officer in the provision of stationary and writing implements and in postage, telephone and bank charges and other miscellaneous items,\nare hereby specified.\n(2) The maximum recoverable amounts by a regional returning officer at a contested election are hereby specified as–\n(a) £500 in respect of the services specified in paragraph (1)(a) above; and\n(b) £400 in respect of the expenses specified in paragraph (1)(b) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1094/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:31.558405+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."
}