The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

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

1.  The returning officer may recover expenses incurred of a kind specified in this Part.

2.  Travelling and overnight subsistence expenses of –

(a) the returning officer;

(b) any person employed to count the votes;

(c) any presiding officer or poll clerk;

(d) any person performing functions delegated to him by the returning officer in accordance with section 14A(1) of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962(1); and

(e) any clerical or other persons employed by the returning officer.

3.  Expenses in printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers.

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

5.  Expenses in printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices and other documents required by the Representation of the People Acts.

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

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

8.  Expenses in the provision and storage of voting compartments and any other furniture necessary for polling stations, and for the count.

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

10.  Expenses in the conveyance to and from the polling stations of–

(a) the ballot boxes and ballot papers, and

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

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

12.  Expenses in the provision to each polling station of the large version of the ballot paper and of the prescribed devices for assisting voters with disabilities.

13.  Expenses in the connection with the provision of security measures.

(1)

1962 c. 14; section 14A(1) was inserted by the Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 No. 1264 (N.I. 13). It allows the Chief Electoral Officer to appoint persons to assist him. Section 14A(2) authorises him to delegate any of his functions to persons appointed under section 14A(1).