{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2007/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2007/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1354",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2007",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Uncontested elections – constituency returning officers",
  "text": "(1) Where, at a general election, the return of regional members or, as the case may be, the return of constituency members is uncontested, the maximum recoverable amounts of 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 which are the same 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 the return of regional members and the return of constituency members are both uncontested, the maximum recoverable amounts of a constituency returning officer are hereby specified as–\n(a) £479 in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and\n(b) £1183 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/2007/1354/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:53:44.795869+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."
}