Part 1Electoral Management Board for Scotland
Establishment of Board etc.
2Membership
(1)
The Board is to have—
(a)
a convener, who must be a returning officer,
(b)
8 other members of whom—
(i)
5 are to be returning or depute returning officers,
(ii)
3 are to be electoral registration officers.
(2)
The Scottish Ministers are to appoint the convener.
(3)
The convener is to appoint the other members.
(4)
When appointing members, the convener is to have regard to the desirability of the membership taken as a whole having a broad range of experience in relation toF1—
(a)
different local authority areas (including different kinds of areas) throughout Scotland, and
(b)
the different constituencies and regions provided for Scottish parliamentary elections by schedule 1 of the Scotland Act 1998 (including different kinds of constituencies and regions).