{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2003/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2003/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Regional 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 regional returning officer in conducting a 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 purpose of section 7 of the Scotland Act 1998 and the allocation of seats to regional members under section 8 of that Act;\n(c) the travelling and overnight subsistence expenses of–\n(i) a regional returning officer;\n(ii) officers whose services are placed at a regional returning officer’s disposal under article 16(2) of the 2002 Order;\n(iii) clerical and other assistants employed by a 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 2002 Order; and\n(f) the expenses of a regional returning officer in the provision of stationery and writing implements and the expenses of postage, telephone and bank charges and other miscellaneous items,\nare hereby specified.\n(2) The maximum recoverable amounts of a regional returning officer at a contested election are hereby specified as–\n(a) £549.70 in respect of the services in paragraph (1)(a); and\n(b) £439.76 in respect of the expenses specified in paragraph (1)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/122/article/4",
    "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."
}