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 Schedule 1 to this Order (regional returning officers for the Scottish Parliament regions) is the person who, under section 41(1) (returning officers: local elections in Scotland) of the Representation of the People Act 19835, is the returning officer for elections of councillors for the local authority for the local government area specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of that Schedule.