Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and replace the Returning Officers' Expenses (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1984. They prescribe, in relation to Northern Ireland, a revised scale further increasing some of the maximum charges in respect of expenses incurred by the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland as returning officer for the purposes of or in connection with a parliamentary election. Separate charges are prescribed in respect of the preparation of poll cards by manual and by non-manual means. The increases over those prescribed in 1984 are between 14 per cent and 18½ per cent save that the maximum charge prescribed for the presiding officer is increased by 30 per cent.