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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-2006/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-2006/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/3268",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Payment of presiding officers at polling stations",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph makes provisions for a constituency returning officer’s expenses at an Assembly election in respect of the payment of presiding officers at polling stations.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) to (6), the maximum recoverable amount at an Assembly election for the specified expenses in sub-paragraph (1) (including expenses incurred in respect of a person who takes over the duties of a presiding officer on polling day due to the incapacity of the previously appointed presiding officer) in respect of the presiding officer at each polling station is £158.00.\n(3) At an ordinary election the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £41.00 where in relation to an Assembly constituency there are polls at a constituency election and at a regional election.\n(4) Where at a polling place there is more than one polling station the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £9.00 in respect of one only of the presiding officers at the polling stations at such polling place.\n(5) In respect of a presiding officer to whom sub-paragraph (4) applies the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £9.00 where sub-paragraph (3) also applies.\n(6) The amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is increased by £41.00 where the poll at an Assembly election is combined with the poll at a local government election under article 15(1) or (2) of the 2003 Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/3268/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:02:15.425708+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."
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