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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-voting-system-and-constituencies-act-2011/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/1",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6",
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  "number": "6",
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  "text": "(1) In section 36 of the 1983 Act (local authority elections), subsections (4), (5) and (6) apply—\n(a) as if a reference to a returning officer included a reference to a counting officer carrying out functions that, but for this Schedule, would be exercisable by a returning officer (“transferred functions”), and\n(b) as if, in relation to that counting officer, a reference to expenditure or expenses were to expenditure or expenses in respect of transferred functions.\n(2) In fixing a scale under subsection (4) or (5) of that section a local authority may include special provision in respect of expenditure incurred by a counting officer in carrying out transferred functions (including expenditure incurred in respect of the remuneration of presiding officers or clerks).",
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  "version": "current",
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  "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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