The New Northern Ireland Assembly Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) Order 1998

2.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, as applied by article 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the New Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 1998, (which 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 an Assembly 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 amounts 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 opposite thereto in the left-hand column of that Part.

(3) The maximum recoverable amount at an uncontested election is hereby specified as £939.26 in respect of the expenses specified in Part A of the Schedule.

(4) In the Schedule to this Order—

(a) “election” means an Assembly election, and

(b) any reference to the register of electors is to the register of electors used at the election at which the services were rendered or expenses incurred and to that register as first published.