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Alord provost(Scottish Gaelic:Àrd-Phrobhaist) is theconvenorof thelocal authority,the civic head and thelord-lieutenantof one of the principal cities ofScotland.^[1]^[2]^[3]The office is similar to that of alord mayor.^[4]^[5]Only the cities ofAberdeen,Dundee,EdinburghandGlasgowhave a lord provost; other Scottish local authorities haveprovostsor convenors, which are similar offices to that of amayor(as a presiding officer of the local council, not as a chief executive of a local authority).^[6]Perth(as a city) previously termed its civil leader a "lord provost", but from theSecond World Waronwards has preferred the simple termProvost of Perth.

A lord provost has a higher status than alord mayorin other parts of theUnited Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}They areex officiothe lord-lieutenant for that city, in accordance with section 1 of theLieutenancies Act 1997,which allows the city council to choose its own representative for the monarch.

The lord provosts ofEdinburghandGlasgowenjoy the style of "The Right Honourable"before their office, but not their names.

Permission to use the title is granted to a city by the monarch, under theroyal prerogative,acting on the advice of government ministers.

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^Maver, Irene (2007). "The Scottish Provost Since 1800: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Leadership of 'Local Self-Government'".Heads of the Local State.Routledge.ISBN 978-1-351-15672-1.
^McConnell, Allan (2004).Scottish Local Government.Edinburgh University Press.ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0.
^Garrard, John (28 November 2017).Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800.Routledge.ISBN 978-1-351-15670-7.
^McCrone, David (2022).Who Runs Edinburgh?.Edinburgh University Press.ISBN 978-1-4744-9830-2.
^Lynch, Peter (2001).Scottish Government and Politics: An Introduction.Edinburgh University Press.ISBN 978-0-7486-1287-1.
^Morris, Robert J.; Trainor, Richard H. (5 July 2017).Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750.Taylor & Francis.ISBN 978-1-351-87656-8.

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