Maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses at a contested Assembly regional election held on the same day as a PCC election9.

(1)

The total of the charges recoverable by a regional returning officer at a contested Assembly regional election held on the same day as a PCC election in respect of specified expenses must not exceed the amount listed for each Assembly electoral region in column 3 of the table in Schedule 2.

(2)

The specified expenses are—

(a)

the appointment and payment of persons to assist the regional returning officer;

(b)

travel and overnight subsistence for the regional returning officer and any person appointed to assist the regional returning officer;

(c)

the costs of the nomination process;

(d)

printing or otherwise producing and publishing election notices;

(e)

printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;

(f)

providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items.