A Lord Provost is Convenor of the Local Authority, Civic Head, and Lord-Lieutenant of one of the principal cities of Scotland. The role is similar to that of a Mayor. Only the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow have a Lord Provost with other Scottish Local Authorities having Provosts or Convenors.
A Lord Provost has a higher status than Lord Mayor in other parts of the United Kingdom. He is ex officio the Lord Lieutenant for that city, in accordance with section 1 of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 - allowing the city council to choose its own representative from the Queen.
The Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy the style of "The Right Honourable" before their names.
Permission to use the title 'Lord Provost" is granted to a city by The Queen under the Royal Prerogative, acting on the advice of Government Ministers.
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“Every third year you shall bring out the full tithe of your produce for that year, and store it within your towns; the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 14:28,29.