{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2005/schedule/part-B/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2005/schedule/part-B/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/780",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-returning-officers-charges-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/part/B/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph makes provision for a returning officer’s expenses in respect of the payment of poll clerks at polling stations.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) to (6) below the maximum recoverable amount for the expenses specified in sub-paragraph (1) in respect of each poll clerk is £105.00.\n(3) Where a polling station is in a constituency which is wholly contained in a London borough, the maximum recoverable amount is increased by £85.00.\n(4) Where a polling station is in a constituency adjacent to a London borough, the maximum recoverable amount is increased by £40.00.\n(5) Where there are combined polls at a polling station, the maximum recoverable amount is increased by £25.00.\n(6) Where a poll clerk receives training (including a poll clerk who owing to incapacity or any other reason does not discharge the duties of poll clerk on polling day), the maximum recoverable amount is increased by £40.00.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/780/schedule/part/B/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:29.367674+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."
}