The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

PART B: EXPENSES OF THE RETURNING OFFICER FOR WHICH NO MAXIMUM RECOVERABLE AMOUNTS ARE SPECIFIED

1.  Travelling and overnight subsistence expenses of—

(a) the returning officer;

(b) any deputy appointed under regulation 4(1) of the 2004 Regulations; and

(c) any person appointed under regulation 4(2) of the 2004 Regulations.

2.—(1) Expenses in printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers.

(2) Expenses in the provision to each polling station of the large version of the ballot paper and of the prescribed device for assisting voters with disabilities.

3.  Expenses in printing or otherwise producing the official poll cards and in delivering them to the voters, excluding the expenses referred to in paragraph 4(1) of Part A of this Schedule.

4.  Expenses in printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices and other documents required by the 2004 Regulations.

5.  Expenses in renting, heating, lighting and cleaning any building or room.

6.  Expenses in adapting any building or room and in restoring it to a fit condition for its normal use.

7.  Expenses in the provision of voting compartments and any other furniture necessary for polling stations and the provision in any place of furniture and equipment necessary for the verification and the count.

8.  Expenses in the provision of ballot boxes and instruments to stamp on the ballot papers the official mark.

9.  Expenses in the conveyance—

(a) to and from the polling stations, to and from the verification centre and to and from the count centre of the ballot boxes and ballot papers, and

(b) to and from the polling stations of the voting compartments, any other furniture necessary for polling stations and the instruments to stamp on the ballot papers the official mark.

10.  Expenses in respect of the payment of persons employed in connection with the verification of ballot paper accounts and the count and the training of those persons.

11.  Expenses in the provision of electoral registers, stationery and writing implements and in postage, telephone and bank charges and other miscellaneous items.

12.  Expenses in connection with the provision of security measures, including secure storage of ballot boxes between polling day, verification and the count.

13.  Expenses in connection with the storage of ballot boxes, polling screens, count furniture and equipment.