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  "title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2002",
  "short_title": "National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) 2002",
  "long_title": "Under article 20(1) of the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/450) (“the 1999 Order”) the entitlement of a returning officer at an election to the National Assembly for Wales to recover charges in respect of that person’s services or expenses for, or in connection, with such an election depend upon—the services or expenses being of a kind specified in an Order under that provision,the services being properly rendered and the expenses being properly incurred, andthe charges in respect of them being reasonable.",
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