Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Scottish Parliament (Regional Returning Officers) (Scotland) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 8th February 1999.

(2) In this Order–

“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994(2); and

“local government area” means the area of a local authority.

Regional returning officers

2.  For the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998, the person designated as the regional returning officer for a region specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order(3) shall be the person who, under section 41 of the Representation of the People Act 1983(4), is the returning officer at elections of councillors for the local authority for the local government area specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of that Schedule.

Article 2

SCHEDULEREGIONAL RETURNING OFFICERS FOR THE REGIONS OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates persons to be the regional returning officers for each region in relation to the Scottish Parliament. The regional returning officer for each region will perform functions, conferred by or under the Scotland Act 1998 in relation to the election and return of regional members of the Scottish Parliament.