{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/942",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Services of constituency returning officer other than issue and receipt of postal ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph makes provision for a constituency returning officer’s services in conducting an Assembly election and discharging his duties (except those specified services in paragraph 2(1)) in connection therewith.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) to (6), the maximum recoverable amount at an Assembly election for the specified services in sub-paragraph (1) is £1,605.76.\n(3) The amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £6.23 for every 1,000 entries, or fraction thereof, in excess of 60,000–\n(a) in the case of a constituency election, in the register of electors, or\n(b) in the case of a regional election, in that part of the register of electors used in the Assembly constituency at the election.\n(4) At an ordinary election the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £836.61 where in relation to an Assembly constituency there are polls at a constituency election and at a regional election.\n(5) The amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £278.87 where the poll at an Assembly election is combined with the poll at a local government election under article 14(1) or (2) of the 1999 Order.\n(6) Where at an ordinary election a person is returning officer at more than three constituency elections the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is reduced–\n(a) by £253.23 for each such election exceeding three but not exceeding six, and\n(b) by £374.83 for each such election exceeding six.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/942/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:31.716634+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."
}