{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-2.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/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Services of constituency returning officer in connection with issue and receipt of postal ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph makes provision for a constituency returning officer’s services at an Assembly election in connection with the issue and receipt of the ballot papers for persons entitled to vote by post.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), the maximum recoverable amount at an Assembly election for the specified services in sub-paragraph (1) is £78.66.\n(3) The amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £0.56 for every 50 persons, or fraction thereof, in excess of 1,500 who are entitled to vote by post at the election.\n(4) At an ordinary election the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £78.66 where in relation to an Assembly constituency there are polls at a constituency election and at a regional election.",
  "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/2",
    "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."
}