{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2003/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/122",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2003",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Constituency returning officers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the 1983 Act as applied and modified by article 19 of the 2002 Order–\n(a) the services of a constituency returning officer which are of a kind described in Part A of the Schedule (hereafter referred to as “services specified in Part A of the Schedule”);\n(b) the expenses of a constituency returning officer which are of a kind described in paragraphs 1(1), 2(1), 3(1) and 4 of Part B of the Schedule (hereafter referred to as “expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule”); and\n(c) the expenses of a constituency returning officer which are of a kind described in Part C of the Schedule,\nare hereby specified.\n(2) The maximum recoverable amounts of a constituency returning officer at a contested election in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule or the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule are hereby specified as–\n(a) in the case of a general election, the amounts set out in column 2 of those Parts; and\n(b) in the case of a by-election, the amounts set out in column 3 of those Parts,\nin respect of each entry set out opposite thereto in column 1 of those Parts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/122/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:33:20.309951+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."
}