The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) (Amendment) Order 2019

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in S.I. 2019/1454 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1470

Representation Of The People

The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) (Amendment) Order 2019

Made

18th November 2019

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)

The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes the following Order, with the consent of the Treasury(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 29(3), (3A) and (4C) of the Representation of the People Act 1983(2) and now vested in the Minister for the Cabinet Office(3).

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) (Amendment) Order 2019 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) This Order extends to England and Wales and Scotland.

Amendment to the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2019

2.—(1) The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2019(4) is amended as follows.

(2) In the table in the Schedule (maximum recoverable amounts)—

(a) for the entry for the constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, substitute—

“Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

£3,519

£242,227

£245,745”;

(b) at the end insert—

“York Outer

£3,648

£167,063

£170,711”.

Oliver Dowden

Paymaster General & Minister for the Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

18th November 2019

We consent to this Order

Rebecca Harris

Mike Freer

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

13th November 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2019 (“the 2019 Order”).

The 2019 Order provides for payments for services and expenses of returning officers in connection with the conduct of parliamentary elections in England, Wales and Scotland. The Schedule to the 2019 Order specifies maximum amounts recoverable by returning officers in each parliamentary constituency in England, Wales and Scotland.

This Order amends the table in the Schedule to the 2019 Order. It substitutes the entry in the table for the constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, as the figures have been revised as a result of further information from the constituency. It also adds a further entry (for the constituency of York Outer) which was omitted in error from the 2019 Order.

This instrument is issued free of charge to all known recipients of the defective instrument.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

The consent of the Treasury is required by section 29(9) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2).

(2)

1983 c.2. Section 29 was amended by paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2), section 68 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) and section 18(1) of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6). Paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 21 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41), as amended by paragraphs 104 and 107 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006, substituted subsections (3) to (4C) but these substitutions are not yet in force. There are other amendments to the section but none is relevant.

(3)

The Transfer of Functions (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1728) transferred the functions formerly conferred on the Treasury by section 29 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to the Secretary of State and made consequential amendments. These functions were made exercisable concurrently by the Lord President of the Council and the Secretary of State by the Lord President of the Council Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1837). The Lord President of the Council’s functions were transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1376); and were subsequently transferred to the Minister for the Cabinet Office by the Transfer of Functions (Elections, Referendums, Third Sector and Information) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/997).

(4)

S.I. 2019/1454.