Article 8 Counting officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

(1)

The total of the expenses recoverable by a counting officer in respect of the specified expenses for the referendum cannot exceed the amount listed for each local government area in column 3 of the table in the Schedule to this Order.

(2)

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 paper;

(d)

printing, producing or purchasing stationery to be used for or in connection with postal voting;

(e)

printing or otherwise producing and arranging for the delivery of the poll cards required by rule 11 of schedule 3 to the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013;

(f)

printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices, lists and any other documents required 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 storage of ballot boxes, ballot papers, postal voting statements and documents used to verify personal identifiers on postal voting statements;

(k)

conducting the verification of personal identifiers on postal voting statements and the count (including counting and recording the number of ballot papers, counting the votes and any recount);

(l)

providing and receiving training; and

(m)

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