The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 18th May 1999.

(2) The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994(1) is hereby revoked.

(3) This Order extends to Northern Ireland only.

2.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, as applied by regulation 5(1) of and Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986 (which, as so applied, provides that a returning officer is entitled to recover his charges in respect of services properly rendered or expenses properly incurred for or in connection with a European Parliamentary election if the services or expenses are of a kind specified in an order made under that provision and the charges are reasonable), expenses of a kind described in paragraphs 1(1), 2(1), 3(1) and 4(1) of Part A of the Schedule to this Order (hereafter referred to as “expenses specified in Part A of the Schedule”) and expenses of a kind described in Part B of the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified.

(2) The maximum recoverable amount at a contested election in respect of the expenses specified in Part A of the Schedule are hereby specified as the amounts set out in the right-hand column of that Part in respect of each entry set out opposite thereto in the left-hand column of that Part.

(3) The maximum recoverable amount in respect of the expenses specified in Part A of the Schedule at an uncontested election is hereby specified as £1,158.76.

(4) In the Schedule to this Order–

(a) “election” means a European Parliamentary election;

(b) any reference to the register of electors is to the register of electors used at the election at which the expenses were incurred and to the register as first published;

(c) “returning officer” means the returning officer for a European Parliamentary election in Northern Ireland; and

(d) “the 1986 Regulations” means the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986.

Marjorie Mowlam

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Northern Ireland Office

6th May 1999

We consent to this Order

Bob Ainsworth

Jane Kennedy

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

10th May 1999