{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1378",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "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 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 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 the 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 paragraph 1(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) £77.84 in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and\n(b) £192.68 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; and\n(b) “the European Regulations” means the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1378/article/2",
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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."
}