European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 1999

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1999/948
Year1999

1999 No. 948

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 1999

Made 23th March 1999

Coming into force 1st May 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 4(1)(a)(ii) and (b)(ii) of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 19781, hereby makes the following Order:

S-1 This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections...

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st May 1999.

(2) In this Order a reference to an electoral region or a constituency is a reference to that region or constituency as it is for the time being.

S-2 The returning officer at a European Parliamentary election for...

2. The returning officer at a European Parliamentary election for the electoral region in England specified in the left-hand column of the Schedule to this Order shall be the person who is the acting returning officer at a parliamentary election for the constituency specified opposite thereto in the right-hand column of that Schedule.

S-3 The returning officer at a European Parliamentary election for...

3. The returning officer at a European Parliamentary election for the electoral region of Scotland shall be the person who is the returning officer at a parliamentary election for the Edinburgh South constituency.

S-4 The returning officer at a European Parliamentary election for...

4. The returning officer at a European Parliamentary election for the electoral region of Wales shall be the person who is the acting returning officer at a parliamentary election for the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire constituency.

George Howarth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

23rd March 1999

SCHEDULE

Article 2

RETURNING OFFICERS FOR ELECTORAL REGIONS IN ENGLAND

Name of electoral region

Name of constituency

East Midlands

Northampton North

Eastern

Huntingdon

London

Chipping Barnet

North East

Sunderland North

North West

Liverpool, Garston

South East

Winchester

South West

Yeovil

West Midlands

Birmingham, Edgbaston

Yorkshire and The Humber

Leeds Central

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order designate returning officers at European Parliamentary elections for electoral regions in England. Articles 3 and 4 designate the returning officer for such elections for the electoral regions...

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