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

• Citation: S.I. 2003/3029
• Sections: 2

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the New Northern Ireland Assembly Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Section 2

(1) The Schedule to the New Northern Ireland Assembly Elections (Returning Officer’s Charges) Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”) 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

(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.