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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/referendum-on-the-voting-system-counting-officers-and-regional-counting-officers-charges-order-2011/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1099",
  "legislation_title": "The Referendum on the Voting System (Counting Officers’ and Regional Counting Officers’ Charges) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/referendum-on-the-voting-system-counting-officers-and-regional-counting-officers-charges-order-2011",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Counting officers: specified expenses",
  "text": "The specified expenses are—\n(a) the appointment and payment of persons to assist the counting officer;\n(b) travel and overnight subsistence for the counting officer and any person appointed to assist the counting officer;\n(c) printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;\n(d) printing, producing or purchasing postal vote stationery;\n(e) printing or otherwise producing and arranging for the delivery of poll cards;\n(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;\n(g) renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;\n(h) providing and transporting equipment;\n(i) providing information and communications technology equipment and software and associated costs;\n(j) providing security, including any necessary secure storage of ballot boxes, ballot papers and verification documents;\n(k) conducting the verification and the count;\n(l) providing and receiving training;\n(m) providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items;\n(n) the identification and removal of postal votes from Royal Mail Centres and delivery of them to the counting officer; and\n(o) in a voting area in Scotland, the supply of copies of the register of electors for use in the conduct of the referendum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1099/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:07.748942+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."
}