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Article 11 Counting officers: specified expenses

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The specified expenses are—

(a)

the appointment and payment of persons to assist the counting officer;

(b)

travel and overnight subsistence for the counting officer and any person appointed to assist the counting officer;

(c)

printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;

(d)

printing, producing or purchasing postal vote stationery;

(e)

printing or otherwise producing and arranging for the delivery of poll cards;

(f)

printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices and any other documents required by any enactment for or in connection with the referendum;

(g)

renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;

(h)

providing and transporting equipment;

(i)

providing information and communications technology equipment and software and associated costs;

(j)

providing security, including any necessary secure storage of ballot boxes, ballot papers and verification documents;

(k)

conducting the verification and the count;

(l)

providing and receiving training;

(m)

providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items;

(n)

the identification and removal of postal votes from Royal Mail Centres and delivery of them to the counting officer; and

(o)

in a voting area in Scotland, the supply of copies of the register of electors for use in the conduct of the referendum.