The New Northern Ireland Assembly Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Amendment) Order 2003

2.—(1) The Schedule to the New Northern Ireland Assembly Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Part A (Expenses of returning officer for which maximum recoverable amounts are specified), the amounts set out in the right-hand column opposite the entries in the left-hand column specified below shall be substituted as follows—

(a) in paragraph 1(2) for “£113.91” substitute “£135.00”;

(b) in paragraph 1(3) for “£6.94” substitute “£10.00”;

(c) in paragraph 2(2) for “£72.03” substitute “£90.00”;

(d) in paragraph 3(2) for “£1.44” substitute “£1.65”;

(e) in paragraph 4(2) for “£3,051.43” substitute “£5,731.36”;

(f) in paragraph 4(3) for “£45.78” substitute “£52.65”; and

(g) in paragraph 4(4) for “£41.57” substitute “£47.81”.

(3) In Part A after paragraph 4 add—

“5.— (1) This paragraph makes provision for a returning officer’s expenses in respect of the payment of persons employed in connection with the verification of the ballot paper accounts and the count.
(2) The maximum recoverable amount for each constituency for the expenses specified in sub-paragraph (1) above is	£12,222.22.”

(4) In Part B (Expenses of returning officer for which no maximum recoverable amounts are specified)—

(a) in paragraph 1(b) omit “and”;

(b) after paragraph 1(b) add—

“(ba) any verification or counting staff; and”;

(c) in paragraph 7 at the end insert “or in the provision in any place of furniture necessary for the count.”; and

(d) omit paragraph 10.

(1)

S.I. 1998/1493; this Order was made under section 29(3) and (4) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, as applied by the New Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1287) and, by virtue of section 17(2)(b) and section 23 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), now has effect as if made under section 29(3) and (4) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 as applied by the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2599).