Statutory Instruments
1999 No. 948

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 1999

Made
23rd 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 1978(1), hereby makes the following Order:

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.

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.

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.

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

Article 2

SCHEDULERETURNING 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

Explanatory Note

(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 of Scotland and Wales.

(1)
1978 c. 10; the title of this Act has been amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) and paragraph 4 was substituted by Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (c. 1).