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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-local-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1377",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Local Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-local-returning-officers-charges-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 as that provision applies in respect of local returning officers at a European Parliamentary election by virtue of regulation 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999 (which, as so applied, provides that a local returning officer is entitled to recover his charges in respect of services properly rendered or expenses properly incurred for or in connection with a European Parliamentary election if the services or expenses are of a kind specified in an order made under that provision and the charges are reasonable)–\n(a) services of a kind described in paragraphs 1(1) and 2(1) of Part A of the Schedule to this Order (hereafter referred to as “services specified in Part A of the Schedule”); and\n(b) expenses of a kind described in paragraphs 1(1), 2(1), 3(1) and 4(1) of Part B of the Schedule to this Order (hereafter referred to as “expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule”) and expenses of a kind described in Part C of the Schedule to this Order,\nare hereby specified.\n(2) The maximum recoverable amounts at a contested election in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule or the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule are hereby specified as the amounts set out in the right-hand column of those Parts in respect of each entry set out opposite thereto in the left-hand column of those Parts.\n(3) The maximum recoverable amounts at an uncontested election are hereby specified as–\n(a) £387.31 in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and\n(b) £958.69 in respect of the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule.\n(4) In the Schedule to this Order–\n(a) “election” means a European Parliamentary election;\n(b) any reference to the register of electors is to the register to be used at the election at which the services were rendered or expenses incurred and to that register as first published;\n(c) any reference to a constituency is to a parliamentary constituency wholly or partly contained in the European Parliamentary electoral region;\n(d) “local returning officer” means the officer responsible under the European Regulations for the functions listed in regulation 4 of those Regulations in a parliamentary constituency wholly or partly contained in a European Parliamentary electoral region; and\n(e) “the European Regulations” means the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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