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  "title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2006",
  "short_title": "National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) 2006",
  "long_title": "Under article 21(1) and (2) of the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/284) (“the 2003 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 depends upon —the services or expenses being of a kind specified in an Order under those provisions;the services being properly rendered and the expenses being properly incurred; andthe charges in respect of them being reasonable.",
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