Paragraph 3

(1)

This paragraph makes provision for a returning officer’s expenses in respect of the payment of persons employed in connection with the preparation, revision and issue of the official poll cards.

(2)

The maximum recoverable amount for the expenses specified in sub-paragraph (1)

above where the information about voters in such cards is entered by means of a computer is, for every 100 cards or fraction thereof so prepared, £1.31.

(3)

The maximum recoverable amounts for the expenses specified in sub-paragraph (1) above where the information about voters in such cards is entered otherwise than by means of a computer are, for every 100 cards or fraction thereof so prepared—

(a)

for the initial preparation of such cards £4.03;

(b)

for each revision not confined to a particular section of the cards—

(i)

in respect of new cards prepared on that revision £4.03;

(ii)

in respect of cards not prepared on that revision £0.64;

(c)

for the revision of a particular section of the cards £4.03;

(d)

for the issue of the cards on the occasion of an election £2.07.

(4)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(d) above, an official poll card is to be deemed to have been issued notwithstanding the fact that it has been withdrawn because the voter has successfully applied to vote by post at the election under section 7 or 9(7) of the Representation of the People Act 1985^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1985 c. 50.