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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/10",
  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Expenses.",
  "text": "(1) There shall be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund.\n(a) charges to which persons on whom functions are conferred by regulations made by virtue of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1 are entitled by virtue of regulations under this Act, and\n(aa) any sums required by the Secretary of State for expenditure on the provision of training relating to functions conferred by regulations made by virtue of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1;\n(b) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums charged on and payable out of that Fund under any other enactment.\n(2) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—\n(a) any additional sums payable by way of rate support grant because of an increase attributable to this Act in the registration expenses of registration officers in Great Britain;\n(b) any increase so attributable in the sums payable out of money so provided under section 54(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 on account of the registration expenses of registration officers in Northern Ireland; and\n(c) any increase so attributable in the sums payable out of money so provided under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(1)(a)(aa) substituted for s. 7(1)(a) (1.5.1999) by 1999 c. 1, s. 4; S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1) (with art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), ss. 205(2), 206, Sch. 8 para. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1949 c. 66."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/10/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:09.782128+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}