{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Uncontested elections - constituency returning officers",
  "text": "(1) Where the return of regional members at a general election is uncontested, or, as the case may be, the return of constituency members at a general election is uncontested, the maximum recoverable amounts by a constituency returning officer in respect of–\n(a) the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and\n(b) the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule,\nare hereby specified as the amounts set out in column 3 of those parts in respect of each entry set out opposite thereto in column 1 of those parts.\n(2) Where the return of constituency members at a by-election is uncontested, or, as the case may be, where at a general election both the return of regional members and the return of constituency members is uncontested, the maximum recoverable amounts by a constituency returning officer are hereby specified as–\n(a) £387.30 in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and\n(b) £958.69 in respect of the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}