Parliament (Elections and Meeting) Act 1943

4Section fourteen of this Act shall have effect subject to the following provisions—

(a)no payment shall be made to a registration officer out of moneys provided by Parliament for his own trouble, care and attention in the performance of his duties ;

(b)the expense of any printing required in connection with registration shall be treated as part of the expenses properly incurred by a registration officer under Part I of this Act, notwithstanding that "arrangements for the printing are made by the county council under section ninety-six of the [61 & 62 Vict. c. 37.] Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 ;

(c)for subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following subsection :—

(3)There shall be paid to the town clerk of a county borough or borough, to the clerk of the council of an urban district, and to the secretary of the council of an administrative county, any expenses properly incurred by him in the performance of his duties under national registration regulations made by virtue of this Part of this Act, including reasonable charges for his own trouble, care and attention in the performance of those duties, and the said expenses shall for the purposes of this section be treated as having been incurred for the purposes of this Part of this Act by the Registrar-General of births,' deaths and marriages in England..