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Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894

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17Powers and duties of returning officer

(1)A returning officer shall make and publish such arrangements as he shall think fit for the purpose of enabling nomination papers for the election of parish councillors, and notices of withdrawal, to be obtained, and when filled up to be received and dealt with, at some place within or adjoining the parish, and for that purpose may, by writing under his hand, delegate such of his powers as he shall think necessary to the clerk of the parish council of the parish or other fit person.

(2)The returning officer or officers, as the case may be, shall after an election give intimation in writing forthwith to the clerk of the parish council of the persons elected as parish councillors, and the said clerk shall in each year, by notice in writing to- each parish councillor, summon the statutory meeting of the parish council. The notice shall state the hour and place of meeting.

(3)A nomination paper shall be competently signed by any two parish electors entitled to vote for the candidate nominated.

(4)The intimation of nomination, and notice of withdrawal respectively, may be in the form of the Second and Third Schedules to this Act annexed.

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